I think it's fine if you don't learn Julia. When I was in university some of the course work had to be done in MATLAB. I think Julia could definitely be used in

I think it's fine if you don't learn Julia. When I was in university some of the course work had to be done in MATLAB. I think Julia could definitely be used instead nowadays. Simply being free is reason enough. You could argue that python/numpy would be an option as well.