Python is quite good for this, actually. Julia is fantastic, but the toolchain isn't as mature. (E.g GIS functionality is more or less absent in julia, as far a

Python is quite good for this, actually. Julia is fantastic, but the toolchain isn't as mature. (E.g GIS functionality is more or less absent in julia, as far as I know.) To be fair, R is also fantastic for a lot of it. At any rate, have a look at the pgf backend for matplotlib, cartopy, shapely, etc. Feel free to drop me a line if you want suggestions, examples, etc.