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by drvortex 3779 days ago
Julia? Now you're just making me laugh. Julia has a lot of potential but won't even begin to scratch Python for about 5 more years. Scientific programming is very very addicted to its tools. There is a reason even SciPy (for Python) is compiled Fortan (yes Fortan!) code. R is king for data science and the only reason it lost ground to Python is that R is a one trick pony compared to jack of all trades Python.
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It's called the Lindy Effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

Python (and Fortran), having survived this long, seem destined to live a lot longer than the challengers.