[sebastianavina]

I've seen a lot about Julia on the last months, it seems like a good language (performance and kind of a nice syntax), For me, what makes R a very good choice is because of RStudio. Being able to play there with your data and save it all for later is one of the biggest reasons to use RLang. The Python equivalent would be emacs org-mode, which is great, but not as graphical as RStudio.

Julia seems like a good language, maybe someday i will jump on it, but for the evil mind out there planning to write another language. Please stop, we already have great languages! I can't keep up with the learning! and is so damn difficult to even start a project with so many choices!

[alecdbrooks]

If you're looking for a nice graphical way to play with data in Python, may I suggest IPython Notebook [0]? It's not always easy to configure, but it's maturing fast and lets you have Python code, Markdown, and graphs in one place, not to mention the 21 other languages available natively or as add-ons[1].

[0]: http://ipython.org/notebook.html.

[1]: https://github.com/ipython/ipython/wiki/IPython%20kernels%20... (I'm counting the two Perl kernels as one language and not counting Calico or the example kernel.)

[mrandrewandrade]

Another great graphical way to play with data in Python is using Spyder. It has an Rstudio/matlab sort of interface

https://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyder_(software)

[cschmidt]

There is a version of iPython that works with Julia too

[kyllo]

Yeah you can run IPython Notebook with a Julia kernel.

[sebastianavina]

I just checked ipython notebook. Looks like Matlab Notebook, but in the browser instead of MS Word (I don't know if Matlab Notebook still exists, it's been a long time since the last time I used Windows), anyway, you should try org mode on emacs for python, is way more versatile, compiles to latex, html, and has almost all the features of the ipython notebook.... still Rstudio has a lot of graphical incentives, like data edition, environment variables, easy to follow documentation. Both org-mode and RStudio are very powerful tools, I was mostly ranting about how many options we have for making almost the same thing.

[semi-extrinsic]

RStudio is bringing org-mode to those of us who don't (know|want to learn) emacs. I like it a lot.

[ajinkyakale]

I use ijulia which is based on python notebooks. Try juliabox.org which is a notebook (and more) offering by the julia folks. Then there is juno and julia studio if you are inclined towards an rstudio like interface.

[mapcar]

How about PyCharm or Eclipse+PyDev (I've personally heard more praise for the former)? I use emacs and ess or python-mode so can't comment on the IDEs too much but being able to use the same platform for both has been convenient for me.