# How to know if a package is good?

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**Created:** [June 1, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-know-if-a-package-is-good/82133 "2022-06-01T11:41:34Z")\
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I spent an hour or two back in 2018 listing the packages required for parity with Matlab’s standard library. Some of it’s out of date, but it might be a useful starting point for a beginner package recommendation reference document: [Julia for MATLAB users club - #8 by stillyslalom](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-for-matlab-users-club/12872/8)

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