I think the ability to use existing Python libraries in Julia will immensely help Julia's growth. It will encourage people to try it out for serious tasks. I think there is comfort in knowing that if some important functionality is lacking (which a Python library provides), then one can always use the python library for that task in Julia code; that is, there is no need to rewrite everything in Python.
Also, Julia community is truly awesome; amazing helpful people. Having played with Julia for some time now, I plan to use it soon on a serious project (at least for the purpose of creating the simulation model and running the simulations, and will perhaps use Pandas for the analysis of the data). On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 4:07:44 PM UTC-5, Steven G. Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 2:59:03 PM UTC-5, Erik Engheim wrote: >> >> Given that Julia is not even in version 1 and has a lot less libraries >> than Python I don't think Julia is a serious contender in Scientific >> Computing today. But I am pretty sure it will be. But that wont happen over >> night. >> > > Note, however, that you can call existing Python libraries from Julia. >
