# Is Julia mostly written in Python?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961>\
**Category:** Offtopic\
**Tags:** question, python\
**Created:** [August 23, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961 "2018-08-23T18:45:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![rsmaior](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rsmaior/32/2176_2.png) [@rsmaior](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rsmaior)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/1 "2018-08-23T18:45:08Z")

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In OpenHub there’s many statistics about a big number of open source projects. It says that 47% lines of code from Julia is in Python, 24% in C, 19% in C++ and 10% in other languages. Here is the link: [The JuliaLang Open Source Project on Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/p/JuliaLang)

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/2 "2018-08-23T18:48:37Z")

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No. The GitHub summary says:

```julia
 Julia 69.7%	C 15.7% C++ 9.7% Scheme 3.3% Makefile 0.6% Shell 0.3% Other 0.7%

```

which are reasonable numbers.

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**Author:** ![PetrKryslUCSD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/petrkryslucsd/32/215825_2.png) [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/3 "2018-08-23T18:57:26Z")

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That is bizarre.

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**Author:** ![rsmaior](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rsmaior/32/2176_2.png) [@rsmaior](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rsmaior)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/4 "2018-08-23T19:01:23Z")

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Thanks! But where did you got that info? I searched in the github page and didn’t found anything [https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia)

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/5 "2018-08-23T19:02:24Z")

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You click on the “banner”:

 ![48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/e/4ea94ed756ae8fddcd1adfd0e0b834440f5292a1.png)

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/6 "2018-08-23T19:04:44Z")

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I think the site just mistakes Julia code as Python code.

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**Author:** ![rsmaior](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rsmaior/32/2176_2.png) [@rsmaior](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rsmaior)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/7 "2018-08-23T19:07:36Z")

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Thank you very much!

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**Author:** ![NiclasMattsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/niclasmattsson/32/21988_2.png) [@NiclasMattsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/NiclasMattsson)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/8 "2018-08-23T19:34:08Z")

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> [@kristoffer.carlsson](#):
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> You click on the “banner”:
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> ![48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/4/e/4ea94ed756ae8fddcd1adfd0e0b834440f5292a1.png)

Thanks! And a clarification for others, since it still took me a minute. He means click on the colorful bar att the bottom of the banner showed in the screenshot. Then the text will switch from 43000 commits etc to the language stats.

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**Author:** ![e3c6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e79b87/32.png) [@e3c6](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/e3c6)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/9 "2018-08-23T20:55:00Z")

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It’s nice that most of the source (~70%) is in Julia itself.

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**Author:** ![00vareladavid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/00vareladavid/32/23521_2.png) [@00vareladavid](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/00vareladavid)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/10 "2018-08-23T21:13:54Z")

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Oh no! Delete all the repos, they know our secret! 😆

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**Author:** ![rickhg12hs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rickhg12hs/32/5926_2.png) [@rickhg12hs](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rickhg12hs)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/11 "2018-08-24T01:06:11Z")

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I believe their software has scanners for many languages, but none for Julia.

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/12 "2018-08-24T06:00:21Z")

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It is a mistake. Julia is actually written in Logo, then it’s turtles all the way down 😉

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**Author:** ![mohamed82008](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mohamed82008/32/18171_2.png) [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/13 "2018-08-24T08:05:41Z")

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🐢 🐢 🐢

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**Author:** ![johnh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/johnh/32/3615_2.png) [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/14 "2018-08-24T13:06:22Z")

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You both beat me to it with the Terry Pratchett reference.  
Bringing in the search for a Julia mascot at JuliaCon… I guess turtles have been taken, but is there anything from Discworld?

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**Author:** ![ExpandingMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/expandingman/32/866_2.png) [@ExpandingMan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ExpandingMan)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/15 "2018-08-24T13:31:03Z")

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> [@johnh](#):
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> Bringing in the search for a Julia mascot at JuliaCon… I guess turtles have been taken, but is there anything from Discworld?

There was another thread about this from a while ago. In my opinion the best suggestion was the [julia skimmer dragonfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthetrum_julia). I like that one quite a lot, and a graphic artist probably would not have a difficult time incorporating the dots.

At this point I think the ship has sailed tough. (Sorry to contribute to the complete derailment of the thread. Shameless promotion of dragonfly mascot.)

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-julia-mostly-written-in-python/13961/16 "2018-08-24T13:44:38Z")

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> [@johnh](#):
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> You both beat me to it with the Terry Pratchett reference.

As much as I love the Discworld novels, the expression [is generally used](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down) and of course predates these.