Comment by open-source-ux
3 years ago
What about Julia? It's as readable as Python. Julia is arguably easier than Python in some programming aspects. Both languages can be complicated in more advanced scenarios, but both languages tout an easy start for quick scripts.
Every time I've looked into Julia (it's been a while, last time was around last year), I've hit one or more speedbumps or outright roadblocks in something which comes fairly naturally to python stdlib, or has a library ready to go. If I'm doing just mathy, data-sciency type work, it's usually pretty great. But domains like IO, http (servers or clients), IPC/RPC, database work, AWS, stuff like that always felt at best a bit unpolished.
That's not to say these are impossible in Julia, but there was enough friction to make me not really wanna use it, when python can do all that and more.