# \[ANN\] julia-companies.org

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** announcement\
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297 "2018-08-30T09:44:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![hcs42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hcs42/32/5186_2.png) [@hcs42](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hcs42)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 9:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/1 "2018-08-30T09:44:13Z")

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Hi,

We have created a curated list of companies using Julia in production: [https://julia-companies.org/](https://julia-companies.org/).

So far it contains only our company – if your company uses Julia, please contribute by adding it!

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/2 "2018-08-30T09:50:03Z")

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Why you don’t accept companies that _use_ Julia, and only allow companies that _create brand new_ Julia packages?

If I am looking for a job and I want to work with Julia, a company that uses Julia is just as good.

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**Author:** ![hcs42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hcs42/32/5186_2.png) [@hcs42](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hcs42)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 11:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/3 "2018-08-30T11:09:13Z")

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It depends on how the company uses Julia. If a company uses Julia packages and writes its own Julia code on the top of those packages to achieve its own purpose, then that company is more than welcome on the list.

Do you have this scenario in mind, or a scenario where a company is using Julia with writing only throwaway code?

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/4 "2018-08-30T12:18:10Z")

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> [@hcs42](#):
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> or a scenario where a company is using Julia with writing only throwaway code?

One can use Julia for throwaway code, but using it _only_ for that makes little sense, so I would not worry about this too much.

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**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/5 "2018-08-30T13:07:17Z")

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I don’t understand why you are not welcoming companies that simply use Julia and not develop on it. What’s the problem with that? Julia already has a ton of spectacular packages, I can easily see someone doing production work without developing something new.

In your “contributing” you have `This does not include using an off-the-shelf product that happens to be written in Julia.` This is simply unwelcoming and frankly I don’t see the website [https://julia-companies.org/](https://julia-companies.org/) going very far as long as this is there.

People are often hired to do some work, and this doesn’t necessarily need producing new packages.

Also, I don’t think anyone would ever use a package because it “happened” to be written in Julia. Probably the fact that the package will be written in Julia makes it already a very compelling and very conscious decision. Definitely not a random one.

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**Author:** ![GunnarFarneback](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunnarfarneback/32/1827_2.png) [@GunnarFarneback](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/GunnarFarneback)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/6 "2018-08-30T13:38:40Z")

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It’s not a high bar to require writing code and maintaining it. By those standards my workplace can claim to be using, among others, C, C++, Javascript, Python, Julia, and Matlab. It can’t claim to be using Haskell though, even if Pandoc is part of some documentation generation pipeline.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/7 "2018-08-30T14:16:46Z")

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How are Invenia, Aviva, and Julia Computing not on this list? I’m confused.

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**Author:** ![hcs42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hcs42/32/5186_2.png) [@hcs42](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hcs42)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/8 "2018-08-30T14:22:19Z")

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If these companies should be on the list, by all means please add them by submitting a Pull Request! We created the list itself but haven’t added the companies, because we don’t know enough about them.

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**Author:** ![hcs42](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/hcs42/32/5186_2.png) [@hcs42](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hcs42)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2018, 8:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-julia-companies-org/14297/9 "2018-09-26T20:40:02Z")

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[julia-companies.org](http://julia-companies.org) is based on [erlang-companies.org](http://erlang-companies.org), which is itself based on [elixir-companies.com](http://elixir-companies.com). We took the requirements from [erlang-companies.org](http://erlang-companies.org), and for the same reasons that were summed up by GunnarFarneback, we didn’t think this would be a high bar. In the Erlang world, these requirements are very sensible.

That said, we understand that this can sound unwelcoming in the Julia world. Actually, [elixir-companies.com](http://elixir-companies.com) also doesn’t have these requirements.

So we removed these sentences, hoping to make it easier for people to contribute.

Thank you all for your feedback!