Add to that its ease of use—Julia’s syntax is straightforward and intuitive, similar to that of Python, meaning it can be used extensively for exploratory programming and data analysis.

Julia, a high-performance dynamic language for numerical computing, and potential rival to Python for data science, has cracked the top 20 in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for ...

The August 2023 TIOBE Programming Community Index is out, and the programming language Julia has reached the top 20 for the first time.

Analyst RedMonk picked Julia as a language to watch in 2018 as a possible Python rival. It's not in RedMonk's latest June 2022 top 20 list , but also isn't far from it.