Over the past couple of years, Python has constantly been among the world’s most popular programming languages with a community of more than eight million developers.

**While **Python is reaping the benefits of being around for 30 years, new programming languages are emerging which could challenge Python’s title as “King of Data Science”, the most prominent of which is Julia.

Julia was created to fix the flaws of older languages while combining their strengths. Obviously, it is aiming high — reason enough for us (Daniel and me) to have a closer look and test it in the scope of Motius Discovery.

This post covers what we learned about Julia and how it compares to Python. Before we get into Julia, let’s first start with a quick overview of Python.

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