In some ways – it's much faster, it generally has a lot of features that make it better as a programming language, it's much easier to parallelize. As someone w

In some ways – it's much faster, it generally has a lot of features that make it better as a programming language, it's much easier to parallelize. As someone who's written both professionally, I would say Julia is usually the better choice today. But there is a huge array of existing algorithms that are already implemented in languages like matlab or stata that may not have corresponding equivalents. If what you want is one of these, it's often hard to justify using another language (though in practice I've usually found it pretty easy to port matlab/python/stat to Julia.)