It might be useful to understand (a) adoption within the scientific and engineering community, and (b) adoption beyond. Toward (a), this is really about Julia’s core design intent and audience, and understanding the specific blockers. For (b), IMHO it is a combination of addressing things like we keep seeing in this sort of thread, and then getting the word out beyond the traditional audience, which the community is not necessarily well postured for right now.
Arguably, if you wanted to compare to Rust, which I don’t think is a great comparison for reasons @Benny raises, but for the sake of argument, the Rust community is pursuing more of (b) with much smaller efforts focused on (a). Again, arguably, the opportunity space in (b) is much larger than in (a), so you would expect different growth curves. But I do think there are some places in (b) where Julia can really shine while staying true to its core strengths.
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