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> This is not my experience. Even if you code without caring about performance it is way faster than Python.

It is very usecase dependant. If your Python code is writing lots of loops and scalar processing then naive julia code will trash it. but if it is basically spending all its time in numpy/BLAS routines then they will be comparable. and Julia will looks like its not worth it, since compile time makes it overall slower etc.

> Also, it is not any harder to code in than Python.

If you already know Python then it is easier to use what you know. Furthemore, if you already know Python (or even more so Matlab) it can cause some stumbling blocks. Some idiomatic code in other languages, (like writing everything as big array operations), is unidiomatic in julia (since it causes a lot of allocations tht you don't need)