# Discussion on "Why I no longer recommend Julia" by Yuri Vishnevsky **URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-longer-recommend-julia-by-yuri-vishnevsky/81151 **Category:** Community **Tags:** discussion **Created:** [May 16, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-longer-recommend-julia-by-yuri-vishnevsky/81151 "2022-05-16T14:33:38Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 62

### Author: ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti) #### Post date: [May 17, 2022, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-longer-recommend-julia-by-yuri-vishnevsky/81151/62 "2022-05-17T17:15:38Z")

> [@tobydriscoll](#): > > This is a great point about the “sticks” or barriers to contributing. But the “carrots” are just as big a problem. Maybe bigger, when you consider what obstacles people endure to publish papers. I have been fortunate to have recently moved to a Software Engineer role from being a research academic while being employed at an institution willing to invest in open source infrastructure. We recently launched an Open Science Software Initiative: > **[Open Science Software Initiative (OSSI)](https://www.janelia.org/open-science/overview/open-science-software-initiative-ossi)** > > Summary Open-source code and software are immensely important to progress in all areas of science. Sharing code allows the same analyses to be performed across labs, facilitates wide-spread use of We have a ways to go to raise the standards for academic open source software, but I do think we are starting to some funding for this purpose. That said Julia’s package and Github architecture make this a lot easier. We just need to expand the tooling as we gain collective experience with Julia. --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/discussion-on-why-i-no-longer-recommend-julia-by-yuri-vishnevsky/81151)._