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by CapmCrackaWaka 1802 days ago
It’s a solid combination of performance, easy syntax and flexible environment. A big drawback of Python is that any performant code is actually written in a lower level language, with foreign function calls.

That’s not to say that there are no disadvantages to Julia. I personally see Julia as a beefed up, new and improved R.