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Care to elaborate? I think a lot of HN posts around popular technologies will clearly have a strong group of followers, not sure why it would be appropriate to call them `shills`.

So maybe there is or maybe it's just genuine interest in the novel parallel task runtime. I'd like to think it's the later.

I'd say it's reasonable to say that individuals in the Julia community have made an effort to make the project visible, though that's not to minimize the work itself IMO.

Julia is something which offers a solution to pain points in various long standing languages and since there are many individuals in the general data science space here (which Julia excels in), I would expect Julia to come up somewhat frequently.