I recently finished grad school and accepted a data scientist job a couple weeks ago in part because the job description mentioned expertise with Julia as one of the preferred qualifications (it's rare to see a listing that mentions Julia). It's the language I used for the bulk of my research over the last four years, and has been improving rapidly since it was released. I like Julia a lot more than Python, and I hope it continues rising in popularity. I think once it hits v1.0, we'll begin to see a lot more companies adopting its usage for data science, statistics, and machine learning.