# Julia among the most loved languages

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [May 29, 2020, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423 "2020-05-29T15:37:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/21 "2020-06-05T01:50:13Z")

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[https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x64/1.0/julia-1.0.0-win64.exe](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/winnt/x64/1.0/julia-1.0.0-win64.exe)  
You can just change the versions in the link.

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/22 "2020-06-05T01:51:46Z")

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What about for 64 bit linux?

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/23 "2020-06-05T01:52:18Z")

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[https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.0/julia-1.0.0-linux-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.0/julia-1.0.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz)

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/24 "2020-06-05T02:00:08Z")

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Hmm, I’m still getting 5.2 seconds on 1.0.0. Not sure what’s up there.

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/25 "2020-06-05T02:00:45Z")

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oh wow. Try the pre-snoop release.

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/26 "2020-06-05T02:01:01Z")

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What version is that?

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/27 "2020-06-05T02:02:35Z")

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Plots v0.27.0

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**Author:** ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/28 "2020-06-05T02:04:01Z")

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Wait, are you timing `@time using Plots` or `@time begin using Plots; display(plot(rand(4,4)); end`? Those will give very different results.

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**Author:** ![Oscar\_Smith](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oscar_smith/32/25343_2.png) [@Oscar\_Smith](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Oscar_Smith)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/29 "2020-06-05T02:04:27Z")

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Oh, I was doing the first. That’s the issue.

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**Author:** ![rjmoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@rjmoses](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rjmoses)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2020, 9:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/30 "2020-06-05T09:48:20Z")

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I am of the same ilk–I do not like to write documentation. However, having done some carpentry as a hobby, I do not like building carpentry tools. I like writing code.

Having spent much of my career developing applications as a consultant for commodities trading, I learned that I needed to be able to look at a piece of code and “grok” its intent quickly and accurately. Julia offers a lot of flexibility and a LOT of features, which goes against my need in that kind of software. See my footnote at the bottom.

IMO, code must be easily comprehensible and easily translated to intent–“I want to do this”. Documentation must support that comprehension and understanding of intent.

**Footnote:** For those not familiar with commodities trading, it used to be an extremely high pressure, high response-time sensitive industry. It is highly leveraged where you can make a LOT of money quickly and lose it ALL even more quickly. At one point, you could be fined $30,000 per minute for being late in sending information to an Exchange.

In one instance, I spent 6 months trying to find a bug in an infrequently used error recovery routine in a C program where the programmer had written “if ( errorcode = 1 ) { … }”. The error in that code was not obvious when looked at while under pressure.

It was enough pressure that I almost bought stock in the company that makes Tums.

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**Author:** ![Gunter\_Faes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/gunter_faes/32/12580_2.png) [@Gunter\_Faes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gunter_Faes)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/31 "2020-06-11T17:21:29Z")

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I see it similar and to make Julia better known among data analysts (in Germany), I published an article in the ix (a very well known magazine in Germany): [Flinke Sache - Julia für die Datenanalyse](https://www.heise.de/-4777472)

![iX13SpecialTitelbild_small](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/9/f/9f39bfff68701f11176cfa382588ae39792026e6.png)

Hope it helps! 😀

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**Author:** ![anon37204545](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@anon37204545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon37204545)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-among-the-most-loved-languages/40423/32 "2020-06-11T17:53:17Z")

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Recently I added Julia and Julia libraries to awesome lists which I found appropriate for that, like economics, bioinformatics, LaTeX, research, etc. (should be visible in [PRs in May](https://github.com/zdroid?tab=overview&from=2020-05-01&to=2020-05-31) on my GitHub). There are dozens of other awesome lists and other documentary materials on GitHub, of which each has thousands of monthly views. If someone is up to continue the task, that’d be great.

Writing an article like @Gunter_Faes did could also help a lot.

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