[Fomite]

The CrossValidated site on Stack Exchange, which is devoted to statistics and machine learning, had a question on this with some solid answers: http://stats.stackexchange.com/q/25672/5836

My take is that I'd really like Julia to take off (I would really like to be less penalized for writing loops), but libraries, and especially libraries that allow people to use it as an analysis language (rather than for writing their own bespoke stuff) is essential.

[tlmr]

Thanks. What do you think of pycall?

[Fomite]

Honestly, I haven't used it. Julia is a curiosity for me at the moment, and my workload (I'm an epidemiologist, and there's a bit of an Ebola crisis at the moment) doesn't allow for experimenting with new languages at the moment enough to have delved deeply into interoperability between Python and Julia.