This is a poll about whether Julia should have an unofficial community mascot. Since this topic has resurfaced repeatedly over the years without converging, I thought it might be useful to at least get a clearer signal on whether people want an unofficial mascot at all, and if so which candidates a…

Polling has closed and the results are in. YES, Julia should rather have a mascot (however official) than not This was a close call and my hunch was that it were more like 60 : 40. Nevertheless, the yays have it. The HUMMINGBIRD is the overall winner in the mascot contest :trophy::tada: The (or be…

If we could avoid infringing copyright, some Dr Seuss animals from “On beyond Zebra” would work.

I’d like to add a suggestion, one that will probably be controversial but which is backed by an actual Julia package: the cthulhu creature. It has the advantage of not being taken by any other language, almost certainly. (See Cthulhu.jl .) Symbolizing the ability to access and reason about the low-le…

Read the FAQ, still +1 for Dispatch. Fair point to raise. I did see the “Dispatch” walkie-talkie idea in the old thread, but I deliberately treated this poll as a shortlist of the more serious creature/animal-like mascot proposals. I dunno, they seem like a good creature to me. “Serious” or othe…

I asked ChatGPT to create a mascot: [file00000000b8d871f4972285776582755d]

[image] icweaver: I dunno, they seem like a good creature to me. “Serious” or otherwise = ] And still … [IMG6543] [image] empet: I asked ChatGPT to create a mascot: What a smart character. :wink:

Another mascot suggestion (prompted AI for it). You could call it a pet lambda (a nod to Julia origins), but anyone can have different associations: [juliaplush]

[image] Dan: You could call it a pet lambda I WANT ONE. NOW. (Why should biologists have all the fun ?)

let’s just say I’m a little surprised that passed the AI’s safety features on lewd content :joy:

Here is my apology for Dispatch: So, working with @Wikunia and with permission from @miguelraz , we included Dispatch as the unofficial mascot in our JuliaCon talk here: [Javis.jl: Julia Animations and Visualizations | Jacob Zelko, Ole Kröger | JuliaCon 2021] This video has been viewe…

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gwr April 24, 2026, 6:51am 25

Cute pun, but to me a walkie-talkie still feels more like a single-dispatch device with extra knobs than a true multiple-dispatch mascot.

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