# Julia motivation: why weren't Numpy, Scipy, Numba, good enough?

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**Created:** [February 22, 2017, 3:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-motivation-why-werent-numpy-scipy-numba-good-enough/2236 "2017-02-22T15:34:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![vchuravy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/vchuravy/32/8_2.png) [@vchuravy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vchuravy)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2017, 6:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-motivation-why-werent-numpy-scipy-numba-good-enough/2236/30 "2017-02-25T06:38:19Z")

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