# What do we have to attract C++ or other languages' power users to try Julia?

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> [@Tarny\_GG\_Channie](#):
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> So, back to the question. What do we have?

I used to be a pretty competent C++ programmer. I am no longer that. While it was fun to spend entire weeks talking to labmates about how to micro-optimize some bitsets or other obscure code, I enjoy even more just doing `using SomeLibrary` and making things faster.

What do we have? I suggest you look around, Julia has a lot. A small list for you to ponder.

- [https://turinglang.org/:](https://turinglang.org/:) easily best in class for probabilistic programming, I’ve used Stan, WinBUGS, PyMC3 before and Turing is by far the most pleasant
- [https://jump.dev/:](https://jump.dev/:) absolutely fantastic environment for mathematical programming
- [https://sciml.ai/:](https://sciml.ai/:) really, does anything more need to be said about SciML? fantastic ecosystem
- [https://www.algebraicjulia.org/:](https://www.algebraicjulia.org/:) category theory in Julia, even a non-mathematician like myself made some contributions
- A commercial game dev environment (you seem quite interested in game dev) [I'm creating the world's first commercial game written in Julia!](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/im-creating-the-worlds-first-commercial-game-written-in-julia/130412)

I have no idea what is a power user or “top 1% of programmers”. That doesn’t seem like a healthy way to think about adoption. I see university classes and labs adopt Julia and that tells me enough, that the next generation of programmers and scientists will be using it, and that’s good enough for me.

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