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by MagnumOpus 1135 days ago
What prevents it is the libraries. Just like Python.

Julia as a compiled language is faster and more distributable than either, but there is a chicken-egg problem about the ecosystem. MathWorks' provided libraries for Matlab are excellent, amazingly documented and massively supported. Python libraries are just hugely numerous in any domain you can imagine...

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There are PyCall.jl and RCall.jl. Stay in Julia and use other libraries in addition.
And a MATLAB.jl too.