What prevents it is the libraries. Just like Python. Julia as a compiled language is faster and more distributable than either, but there is a chicken-egg prob

What prevents it is the libraries. Just like Python. Julia as a compiled language is faster and more distributable than either, but there is a chicken-egg problem about the ecosystem. MathWorks' provided libraries for Matlab are excellent, amazingly documented and massively supported. Python libraries are just hugely numerous in any domain you can imagine...