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I'd also add to this that the government is pretty heavily invested into python (at least NASA, DoD, and DoE based on direct experience). It's kind of becoming the scientist's and engineer's new Fortran.

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It's a matter of ongoing surprise to see many scientist-engineers in my niche, in the USAF-sphere, who are jumping from Matlab to Julia, leapfrogging Python. Kudos to them.

Julia is pretty cool, I made a point to experiment with it a bit last year. What we work on is pretty heavily object-oriented, and at the time it seemed to me that the types system seemed a bit too awkward to use to for our purposes at the time. I'll probably look at it again this year (probably through Jupyter/IPython notebook)

I really hope Julia succeeds. I will keep working on Octave as the springboard that they can take from Matlab to Julia.

My hope is for some day Matlab to be as obsolete as Octave itself.

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