Programming languages: Julia users most likely to defect to Python for data science
By Liam Tung | August 26, 2020 -- 13:07 GMT (06:07 PDT) | Topic: Enterprise Software
The open-source project behind Julia, a programming language for data scientists, has revealed which languages users would shift to if they decided no longer to use Julia.
Julia, a zippy programming language that has roots at MIT, has published the results of its 2020 annual user survey. The study aims to uncover the preferences of those who are building programs in the language. This year, the survey attracted 2,565 Julia users and developers, up from 1,844 participants in 2019.
Python, a language that's developed a strong affinity with data scientists for machine-learning applications, is overwhelmingly the language that Julia developers would turn to if they needed another language.
