# Is Julia a general purpose language?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-a-general-purpose-language/17071>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** json\
**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-a-general-purpose-language/17071 "2018-11-01T20:52:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfitzseb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/pfitzseb/32/45566_2.png) [@pfitzseb](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pfitzseb)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2018, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-a-general-purpose-language/17071/43 "2018-11-02T09:15:33Z")

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Browsing through nested dicts can also be made much more pleasant:

 ![Peek%202018-11-02%2010-13](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/5/4/54dceb8843987fba909622b434a5e90c858869a3.gif)

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