# Some nice advantages of learning Julia for the R programmers: a small article
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628
**Category:** Community
**Created:** [February 6, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628 "2025-02-06T16:22:03Z")
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### Author:  [@vituri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vituri)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/1 "2025-02-06T16:22:03Z")
I wrote a small article about the advantages of learning Julia in case you are a R programmer (experienced or not so much).
The [Linkedin post](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gvvvvvv_julia-for-r-users-activity-7293300668151263232-qhOe) is here in case you want to spread the Julia word in this sad social network; or you can read it directly [on my blog](https://vituri.github.io/blog/posts/julia-for-r-users/julia-for-r-users.html).
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### Author:  [@slwu89](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/slwu89)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/2 "2025-02-06T16:39:04Z")
This is really nice. I coded in R for 10 years before coming to Julia, and it felt very familiar. I understand why the Julia marketing says something like “feels like Python, runs like C”, but to me it feels much more like R. Like a version of R designed in modern times where S3 dispatch could dispatch on every argument 🙂
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### Author:  [@vituri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vituri)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/3 "2025-02-06T16:42:36Z")
That was my thought too when I started learning Julia! Just a generic function on every variable instead of the first; even the pipe is common. Maybe they just say that it looks like Python because the python-market is bigger 😪
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/4 "2025-02-06T17:04:08Z")
Are you on BlueSky @vituri ? Mind if I share this there? Or if you are, could you share the post here announcing the article – I can reshare it on BlueSky as well. 😃
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### Author:  [@vituri](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vituri)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 5:12pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/5 "2025-02-06T17:12:19Z")
I’m not on BlueSky. Fell free to reshare, spread the word!
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### Author:  [@cocoa1231](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cocoa1231)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2025, 9:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/6 "2025-02-06T21:40:17Z")
Awesome blog post! P.S, using `@threads` alone isn’t recommended. You should check out [this blog](https://julialang.org/blog/2023/07/PSA-dont-use-threadid/) for further info.
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### Author:  [@eteppo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/eteppo)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/7 "2025-02-12T10:23:01Z")
Epic post. I’m slowly transitioning from R to Julia. Feels quite natural. R has many great packages and gets statistics done for sure, but I always keep thinking if it’s a good long-term bet and the answer seems no.
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### Author:  [@steveo314](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/steveo314)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/some-nice-advantages-of-learning-julia-for-the-r-programmers-a-small-article/125628/8 "2025-02-13T01:39:18Z")
Julia and R feel more similar than comparing with python like stated above. The only thing about Julia, which I need to check into more, is that it takes a couple more seconds to load libraries when calling them in when inside VSCode.