I agree. I don't see Julia getting much traction in the statistics community. There is the legacy thing (the tools, existing code, and knowledge) but there is a

I agree. I don't see Julia getting much traction in the statistics community. There is the legacy thing (the tools, existing code, and knowledge) but there is also the fact that R is designed specifically for statistics. Julia is a good replacement for Matlab, but there is a reason Matlab isn't used much in statistics.