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Not in my sphere of activity. I have a friend who recently started his PhD... and is moving all of his development from C/C++/Fortran to Python. Numerical code even - he just doesn't want to bother.

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Citing this example isn't very convincing.

Would be more interesting to know what language he uses when he finishes his Ph.D.

Well, I also have two other colleagues who started using it some months ago to parse data. They don't know about Go or Julia. I think the "wow" factor of Python might be lower than it used to be, but it's not considered dead, at least not in science. Does that reflect the broader reality? I don't know :)

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