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Or Julia, a language custom designed for data science.

Also, MatLab was the go-to before Python took over the scene. So it definetely has competitors.

Python's strength is that it is the "jack of all trades" language. Its not the best at anything but its pretty good at everything.




Julia is much younger.

Matlab is closed source. I haven’t touched it since I had a uni license.




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