I'm in the neuroscience (mostly EEG analysis), so my experience may not fit into economics field. I went from MATLAB only (and Stata for statistical analysis),

I'm in the neuroscience (mostly EEG analysis), so my experience may not fit into economics field. I went from MATLAB only (and Stata for statistical analysis), through R (liked it a lot) and Python, to Julia-only data processing and analysis pipeline (rarely calling R for some required functions). To me Julia is the future of scientific computing, especially for current and ex MATLAB users.