[jernfrost]

Superficially you could say that, but the design of Julia is such that it is much easier for you to grasp what is going on at the lower levels and the performance implications of the code you write.

Python is much more of a black box, performance wise.

Also something like Cython is radically different from Julia. Cython is compiled to C code. Julia is based on JIT so while you have an interactive session in the REPL, functions are continously compiled as you make them.