# In as few lines as possible describe why you love julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/in-as-few-lines-as-possible-describe-why-you-love-julia/33179>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [January 10, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/in-as-few-lines-as-possible-describe-why-you-love-julia/33179 "2020-01-10T02:07:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 9

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Sijun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Sijun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sijun)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/in-as-few-lines-as-possible-describe-why-you-love-julia/33179/9 "2020-01-10T03:28:02Z")

</div>

This just came to my mind:

```julia
using Dates

# Find the next Friday the 13th that falls on April
tonext(today()) do d
   dayofweek(d) == Fri &&
   day(d) == 13 &&
   month(d) == Apr
end
# 2029-04-13

```

Python’s datetime is horrible to use…

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/in-as-few-lines-as-possible-describe-why-you-love-julia/33179)._