My experience with Julia is not deep, but I’ve found it’s really nice to iterate on something that floats towards something that flies in one ecosystem. It’s not harder than Python to get the working implementation up and going - really there is a lower volume of idiosyncrasies.
The only annoying thing I've found is the startup time for the REPL / notebook environments, unless you keep one running all the time. Importing biggish libraries takes some time even if they're already compiled.
I ended up making a custom system image with the libraries I always use (Plots, etc) which does help on that front.
That's a fairly minor gripe, mind you. It's still great.
