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> Why would anyone prefer Python, given that there is a much faster, free alternative in Julia, which is just as easy a language to program in?

Python also has a much more mature ecosystem (read: more pre-written libraries to do what you want to do), and delivers some of the UI benefits of Mathematica if you take into account ipython notebooks and packages like Bokeh.

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I'm really looking forward to Julia, I like the language and its performance, but this blog post by Dan Luu is discouraging: http://danluu.com/julialang/.

This domain looks very specialized. For this domain which seems math centric and computationally expensive, I'm genuinely curious what pre-written libraries would be useful that would ultimately be a factor in language choice.

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