&gt; But to get going with Julia, I just download Julia and go.<p>Until you need to do something very straightforward like web scraping or interacting with AWS and find out that nobody&#x27;s released a package for that yet, so you&#x27;re going to have to reinvent the wheel before you can get to the scientific question that is of actual interest.<p>Julia looks very interesting as a language, let&#x27;s just hope it doesn&#x27;t end up a ghetto like R (lots of awesome statistical tools, a dearth of libraries and tools for everything else).