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Re:Administrative Scripting with Julia by jakobnissen on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:44AM (#35482078)
I feel the same way. As a bioinformatician, Julia is very close to the perfect language. It addresses real everyday problems I face using Python, our lingua Franca.

So why hasn't it gotten more popular in science and engineering? It seems to have stagnated in popularity since 2020 for no particular reason - the language itself has not stagnated, and it gets better every year. I'm honestly bewildered.

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Re:Administrative Scripting with Julia by dunefox on Friday April 07, 2023 @10:46AM (#35482087)
Well, more people don't use it because more people don't use it. Network effect and inertia.
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Re:Administrative Scripting with Julia by jakobnissen on Friday April 07, 2023 @11:44AM (#35482868)
Sure, but the same could be said about Python. In the early 2010s, Perl still reigned supreme in my field, yet Python usurped it, despite having no concrete advantages over Python except a better design.

And of course, Perl also replaced an existing language. It's not like people settled on Fortran in the 1950s and then never moved on.

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Re:Administrative Scripting with Julia by dunefox on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:44PM (#35483757)
Yes, but the situation seems to be different now. Perl wasn't as widely used, especially at universities, for ML, DL, Statistics, etc. as Python is now.
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