Comment on Python, Machine Learning, and Language Wars. A Highly Subjective Point of ViewparentComments−drauh11yYeah, there is a large community of Python users in scientific computing. It's great.I like well-established languages with a large user base.So, I was dismayed by Big Data Genomics' ADAM Project's choice of Scala, which has almost no uptake in the genomics/bioinformatics community.They do it because they run over Spark. But Spark has an excellent Python binding.−justthistime_11yPython's days have come and gone.Computation has grown more complicated. They need real computer scientists and a real language that supports real development, not some scientists which learned just enough Python to automate running some 20 year old Fortran code.−LofkinOP11ySo Julia then :)
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Yeah, there is a large community of Python users in scientific computing. It's great.
I like well-established languages with a large user base.
So, I was dismayed by Big Data Genomics' ADAM Project's choice of Scala, which has almost no uptake in the genomics/bioinformatics community.
They do it because they run over Spark. But Spark has an excellent Python binding.
Python's days have come and gone.
Computation has grown more complicated. They need real computer scientists and a real language that supports real development, not some scientists which learned just enough Python to automate running some 20 year old Fortran code.
So Julia then :)