The JuliaCon22 keynote by Jeremy Howard was an eye-opener for me. I’ve been trying to evangelize Julia to my engineering colleagues, and only a few younger folks seem open to it. I think if we can solve the issues so that “Julia could have Go’s things” as Jeremy puts it here - JuliaCouldHaveGosThings - the language would take off in popularity. Here’s a screenshot that hammers home a major point:
The inadequate answer offered in the lower-left bubble is admittedly from 2019, but unless I’ve missed some news, the status quo currently isn’t a lot better.
If we don’t solve these issues, I think Julia will be relegated to a niche language that few of us can use in our jobs. I reluctantly work mostly in Matlab, Python, and shell-scripting (bash / csh) in my day-to-day work. I can’t easily give someone a Julia program to run, and it’s not trivial to get a working environment set up.