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Big enough to attract developers. As a bioinformatic tool developer, I'm probably gonna stick with Python and Julia since I have access to wider ecosystem of general purpose mathematical libraries and expertise.



Yeah, basically this. A big enough niche to have enough users to survive as a language, and to be worth recommending to colleagues.




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