# Why is Python, not Julia, still used for most state-of-the-art AI research?

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**Category:** Offtopic\
**Tags:** knet, flux, machine-learning, mlj, sciml\
**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-python-not-julia-still-used-for-most-state-of-the-art-ai-research/45896 "2020-09-01T13:49:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yifan\_Liu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@Yifan\_Liu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Yifan_Liu)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 4:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-python-not-julia-still-used-for-most-state-of-the-art-ai-research/45896/34 "2020-09-02T04:20:26Z")

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I kind of feel like the two language problem is getting less important over time. Lower level languages are getting easier to use. Rust and Cpp with modules are very appealing.

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