Julia at PyCon Greece 2025 - Opportunity to Showcase Our Language We’re excited to share that 2025 will mark the inaugural PyCon Greece conference. The organizing team has done exceptional work establishing this event, including creating a financial aid program to ensure broader participation. Afte…

[image] xlxs4: Which aspects of Julia would be most compelling to highlight for an audience of Python users? Avoid the most common mistake to try to sell Julia for its speed. Python users don’t care about that. Instead, focus on state-of-the-art package ecosystems built in Julia and they migh…

I second that, and I would also say it is worth highlighting that the Julia-Python communication ecosystem is really good. Show that if the barrier of learning a new language is too high, juliacall is really simple to use. (or, it appears so, I am not a python user!)

[image] xlxs4: Which aspects of Julia would be most compelling to highlight for an audience of Python users? For me something truly unique and amazing is the composability it offers due to multiple dispatch. If you want a self-contained and runnable example that really proves the point in a m…

Hey @xlxs4 , How exciting and congratulations! If there are any social posts about this on BlueSky, happy to reshare, etc. Having presented once upon a time at PyData Global ( Presentation: A Visual Odyssey: Animations and Visualizations Made with Julia | PyData Global 2021 ) the biggest point of fe…

[image] juliohm: Avoid the most common mistake to try to sell Julia for its speed. Python users don’t care about that. Instead, focus on state-of-the-art package ecosystems built in Julia and they might be interested in giving it a try. This gives concrete evidence of top-quality work enabled by…

Another resource: [image] Comparison tables for various Julia packages Community Context Julia enthusiasts are always pitching the language to colleagues, and despite various technical arguments, we often fail to show how the language can concretely impact sci…

Thank you all! The abstract is live

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