# I've heard a number of people say Julia is not mainstream because it doesn't have many stackoverflow questions answered but they don't know about discourse **URL:** \ **Category:** Teaching & Outreach\ **Created:** [January 11, 2021, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-heard-a-number-of-people-say-julia-is-not-mainstream-because-it-doesnt-have-many-stackoverflow-questions-answered-but-they-dont-know-about-discourse/53168 "2021-01-11T17:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2

**Author:** ![Datseris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/datseris/32/13406_2.png) [@Datseris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Datseris)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-heard-a-number-of-people-say-julia-is-not-mainstream-because-it-doesnt-have-many-stackoverflow-questions-answered-but-they-dont-know-about-discourse/53168/2 "2021-01-11T20:03:53Z")

I wanted to mention something related as well, and this post is a good opportunity. You mentioned that the ratio is about 7:1 on Discourse:SO. I think that the ratio of Slack:Discourse is about 100:1 if not more. And this I really believe is hurting the Julia community and makes “googling” Julia much harder than it should be. Discourse still has a permanent nature, and thus it isn’t a big deal if questions are answered here or in SO. But Slack is a different story… Problem is, I am not even sure how to initiate a discussion about this, or what to do alternatively, given that the Slack is so good, but everything is lost after a week… (EDIT: I’ve encountered this problem while teaching my physics course that uses Julia) --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ive-heard-a-number-of-people-say-julia-is-not-mainstream-because-it-doesnt-have-many-stackoverflow-questions-answered-but-they-dont-know-about-discourse/53168)._