[pdimitar]

Oh, he definitely tried R but was not very impressed. Says it's only moderately better than Python's otherwise excellent bindings to a lot of libraries, and that he had no patience for Julia. He isn't exactly a programmer, he's just a very practical guy that is open to learning some programming to get his stuff done quicker and with less mistakes but that's about it. He has a short fuse for ecosystem deficiencies -- tbf I think we the programmers have to learn from such people. :D

And yeah, Elixir's scene in this area is just now starting. The NX project opened a lot of possible doors but the community just started stepping up. It's going to be a while, granted, but I am optimistic because Elixir's overall community values quality and centralization (with all the sometimes problematic collaboration efforts that entails) over rushing to have 10 competing implementations.

Time will tell. I have no horse in the race either way, just sharing various observations really.