@willball12 I mean it depends what you want to do. If you want to get into machine learning, python has far better support. There are a few syntax items that I think make python better (but that is all subject to opinion)

I don't think it was recorded, but here are some slides on why to use python I presented this past August

https://github.com/pzivich/Presentations/blob/master/ISCB43/Zivich_Python_ISCB43.pdf