IMO, the biggest reason for me is that the code looks a lot more similar to the math than in python/R. This comes from a number of places (multiple dispatch, ab

IMO, the biggest reason for me is that the code looks a lot more similar to the math than in python/R. This comes from a number of places (multiple dispatch, ability to use unicode symbols, you don't have to vectorize everything, etc), but the end result is code that looks a lot like the math you are trying to do (for examples, see https://discourse.julialang.org/t/from-papers-to-julia-code-examples-wanted/62704 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/from-papers-to-julia-code-...)