Python really doesn&#x27;t (and cannot) address many of the design goals of Julia. At least as I understand them (and I&#x27;m not a Julia user).   Whether or not Julia has&#x2F;will achieve them either is a separate issue.<p>Python can be a very useful mess for this sort of work (numerical analysis etc.), and is succeeding at that quite well.  In fact, that&#x27;s it&#x27;s main challenge to something like Julia.  Not design, that ship sailed a long time ago.  But practicality and availability of packages and bindings.  Once you get too far ahead in that, it&#x27;s hard to justify using any other platform for &quot;real work&quot;, rather than because it&#x27;s fun to hack on.