# 10 years... countless hours worked into Julia... for what?

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**Created:** [April 3, 2024, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/10-years-countless-hours-worked-into-julia-for-what/112444 "2024-04-03T00:06:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![miguelraz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/miguelraz/32/631_2.png) [@miguelraz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/miguelraz)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/10-years-countless-hours-worked-into-julia-for-what/112444/3 "2024-04-03T01:03:27Z")

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FYI, this post is basically a call for unnecessary engagement and will result in bickering / dogpiling, and probably get flagged by the mods asap, see:

> [@Avoiding unnecessary engagement in pointless arguments](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/avoiding-unnecessary-engagement-in-pointless-arguments/99973):
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> It’s an essentially unavoidable fact that people will come to this forum and make confident statements or demands that reasonable people who are experienced in the language strongly disagree with. These people will sometimes (but not always!) do this in a nasty and unfriendly way. I understand that it is highly tempting to want to give your own personal perspective and weigh in on the issue, and that is valuable, but I would urge people to exercise restraint in doing so when several other peopl…

I would **highly** encourage you to prompt much more focused discussions such as

- Does anyone know of any work that will bring Julia to new users/domains that you find exciting?
- Does anyone know of studies that try to quantify compositionality of code across programming languages?

Consider closing this thread and opening up another one.

Or other more focused questions where people’s expertise on interesting topics can be tapped into more than just “vibes” or the HackerNews preoccupation of the day.

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