As a former academician, “created by academicians” is for software as bad an advertisement as it gets, especially for something foundational and impossible to c

As a former academician, “created by academicians” is for software as bad an advertisement as it gets, especially for something foundational and impossible to change later. I don’t think it’s a meaningful factor in case of Julia though: more like that Python is a safe and rather pleasant choice for most research-related problems, not only in ML. So no reason to change. And if you’re just starting, you’d better learn Python anyway, and if it’s enough, why look for something marginally better? Julia needs a niche where it’s clearly better than Python (and R and C++ for that matter) and grow from there. Maybe there already is one, they need to market it more clearly.