Any examples? I've found Julia far easier for simple things than python. Most modern problems are mathematical and nature and I think it's pretty objective that julia looks closer to the mathematics.
----Some tests of very simple tasks in both languages.
At its most basic the obviouses becomes different:
Let's try to get a very simple object: a 3,3 matrix of random booleans in both languages:
Julia:
A = rand(Bool,3,3)
Python: No standard support for Matrices. I could really do it a disservsice and comapre the "core language", but that''s obivously stupid so we'll bring in some external libraries to make it easier. Of many ways to skin the cat here's one..
Python
import numpy.numpy as np
gen = np.random.default.default_rng()
B = gen.choice([True,False],(3,3))
BTW julia has this choice function built into the command as well, so rand(["Which", "Word", "Will", "I", "get?"]) produces exactly what you'd expect.
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Acutally I can't think of any cases at all off the top of my head. Sorry, I mean my np.somenamespace.another.namespace.sparce head :)
I mean just going down the list of things that make code easier in Julia..
* Python requires a third party library for any kind of linear algebra. and matrix multiplication:*
A =[1 4;6 7"; B = [2 ;3]; A*B doesn't work, i.e. you literally even multiply a matrix! This is madness.you'll need yet again a third partly library
Python doesnt have broadcasting. let's apply sin(x) to a matrix a Pythonic(+ required third party libraries) import numpy as np
import math #sigh
x = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
f = lambda x: sin(x)
Now in Julia (notice the . after sin) x=1:5 sin.(x)
or more explicity we could write broadcast(sin, x)
Even basic string interpolation in Julia is a much nicer "trivial task" than in python alone
No special brackets, just clean "$myvar"
# Reading files is easier
Julia
readlines("my_test.txt")
Python
open("my_test.txt").readlines()
What a stupid option in 2? if I call readlines on a filename, 99% of people, 99% of the time, want to read the lines on the file at that path. Why require two function calls?