alt Hacker NewsPython predates Julia by 3 decades. In many ways Julia is a response to Python's shortcomings. Julia could've never taken off "instead of" python but it clearly hopes to become the mature and more performant alternative eventually
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gooodvibes • yesterday at 8:15 PM
When Julia came out neither Python nor data science and ML had the popularity they have today. Even 7-8 years ago people we're still having Python vs R debates.
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Some small additional details: 23 years not 30. Also, I think Julia was started as much in response to Octave/Matlab’s shortcomings. I don’t know if it is written down, but I was told a big impetus was that Edelman had just sold his star-p company to Microsoft, and star-p was based around octave/matlab.
- https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/