Comparing with Python

[alejandromerchan]

I’m a biologist that got into programming through R and statistics. I’ve tried Python too, but not as extensively, and I’m not, by any means a coder or programmer o package developer. That said, I’ve found Julia more intuitive than R or Python, especially when trying to understand the code. I’m sure my lack of experience in the field doesn’t give me a lot of perspective, but when I started to go deeper into packages in R, not much made sense, I’ll run into C code and things way above my pay grade. I didn’t find that at Julia, even though I admit I still don’t completely understand how different developers accomplish some things. That’s my experience and that’s why I’ve been trying to learn Julia and preaching a little bit about it. Luckily, I don’t need to “unlearn” years of Python, something I’m sure it’s hard to achieve.