# Is Julia able to replace C?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-able-to-replace-c/45178>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 18, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-able-to-replace-c/45178 "2020-08-18T20:01:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-able-to-replace-c/45178/2 "2020-08-18T20:06:20Z")

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Previous discussions of this:

- [https://groups.google.com/g/julia-users/c/6FJ65U7n73M/discussion?pli=1](https://groups.google.com/g/julia-users/c/6FJ65U7n73M/discussion?pli=1)
- [https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaParser.jl/issues/78](https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaParser.jl/issues/78)
- [Julia written in Julia? - #13 by yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-written-in-julia/25781/13)

I think a fair summary is that implementing Julia in Julia is possible but would require a lot of effort without a clearly worthwhile reward.

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