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NCDF_CLOSE, fid_out ; Phew... finally done!
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The key difference is that IDL requires you to write low level code to construct a NetCDF file from scratch (exactly like a Fortran program does), while Python/xarray allows you to write **human-readable ideas**. The efficiency-gain by switching to Python is enormous. You can spend much less time writing boilerplate code and **have much more time thinking about real science**. Your code is also a lot more understandable to others, facilitating collaboration.
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IDL requires you to write low level code to construct a NetCDF file from scratch (exactly like a Fortran program does), while Python/xarray allows you to write **human-readable ideas**. The efficiency-gain by switching to Python is enormous. You can spend much less time writing boilerplate code and **have much more time thinking about real science**. Your code is also a lot more understandable to others, facilitating collaboration.
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It took me roughly 2 days to finish the data analysis part for [my recent paper](https://github.com/JiaweiZhuang/FV3_util), which involves processing Terabytes of data on the cubed-sphere grid. The same task would have taken me many weeks with IDL, if possible at all!
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It took me roughly 2 days to finish the data analysis part for [my recent paper](https://github.com/JiaweiZhuang/FV3_util), which involves processing Terabytes of data on the cubed-sphere grid (a quite computationally difficult problem). The same task would have taken me many weeks with IDL, if possible at all!
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## How about NCL? R? Julia?
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