# 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:** <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>\
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**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")\
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**Author:** ![logankilpatrick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/logankilpatrick/32/38123_2.png) [@logankilpatrick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/logankilpatrick)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2021, 8:20pm 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/53168/22 "2021-01-18T20:20:15Z")

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Put together a proposal to address some of these pain points: [Bridging Slack's #Helpdesk and Discourse (Proposal, feedback welcome!)](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/bridging-slacks-helpdesk-and-discourse-proposal-feedback-welcome/53554)

Feel free to leave your thoughts in that thread!

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