Julia is generally a more powerful and thoughtfully designed language, so it's great if you want to do your own thing. If you're writing libraries or bespoke al

Julia is generally a more powerful and thoughtfully designed language, so it's great if you want to do your own thing. If you're writing libraries or bespoke algorithms in R and finding yourself struggling for performance, Julia is already a great alternative to R + C (same for Python + C etc.) At the same time, R's ecosystem is huge and a lot more mature than Julia's, so for the average user who just wants to pull in data and plot it, etc., it's a far better choice.