I was at the PyData conference in NYC two weekends ago. There was a huge range of academic and commercial interests there. It had a definite sense of energy and

I was at the PyData conference in NYC two weekends ago. There was a huge range of academic and commercial interests there. It had a definite sense of energy and excitement about all the tools available (and being built) to expand the scientific python universe. As a long-time Matlab user, I'm currently working on migrating my skills to Python simply because the small amount of functionality I may lose (decent IDE with integrated debugger and workspace viewer) I gain back with loads of other tools (like extensive out-of-box support for databases, way better memory management, and exciting developments for targeting GPUs and compute clusters).