Perhaps one problem that we have is that the big blue “Documentation” button in the middle of the Julia language home page takes you straight to the Julia manual. So, there are probably a lot of new users who think they have to start by reading the manual, rather than by reading a tutorial. There should probably be an intermediate page that groups links to documentation into different groups based on documentation type, difficulty level, etc.
For example, here’s a screenshot of the old Python docs page, where you can see the Tutorial with the “start here” hint near the top:
And I guess they’ve changed things a bit, so now this is what you see if you click on the “Docs” menu item:
