# Julia: The Goldilocks language (article from 2018)

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**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-the-goldilocks-language-article-from-2018/44378 "2020-08-05T23:49:39Z")\
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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:** [August 5, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-the-goldilocks-language-article-from-2018/44378/1 "2020-08-05T23:49:39Z")

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I stumbled upon an article which provides great insight into Julia’s mission, development and transition into mainstream.

> **[Julia: The Goldilocks language – Increment: Programming Languages](https://increment.com/programming-languages/goldilocks-language-history-of-julia/)**
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> By blending speed and high-level functionality in a language for technical computing, Julia was designed to be just right.

The only reference of it that I could find is May 2018 Julia Computing newsletter. Many users (including me) weren’t using Julia back then, so they couldn’t see this article. So I’ll just leave it here. 🙂

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**Author:** ![waldyrious](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/waldyrious/32/80_2.png) [@waldyrious](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/waldyrious)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-the-goldilocks-language-article-from-2018/44378/2 "2020-08-06T21:54:42Z")

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I’ve got to say, that was a really nice read. It offered a particularly human-interest perspective of Julia’s development that I hadn’t seen elsewhere. Thanks for sharing!