Someone once said that Python’s data science training wheels would increasingly lead to the R language. Boy, was he wrong. Back in 2015 I wrote that “Python’s data science training wheels ...

The Python programming language, which has never been more popular, arguably thanks to the rise of data science and AI projects in the enterprise, officially turns 30 years old tomorrow.

However, Python’s methods for parallelizing operations often require data to be serialized and deserialized between threads or nodes, while Julia’s parallelization is more refined.