# What don't you like about Julia for "serious work"?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-dont-you-like-about-julia-for-serious-work/54591 "2021-02-04T05:49:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 25, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-dont-you-like-about-julia-for-serious-work/54591/177 "2023-11-25T19:41:16Z")

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> [@filchristou](#):
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> What discussion? Any link ?

They’re probably referring to this one:

> [@Output distribution of rand(Float32) and rand(Float64), thread 2](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/output-distribution-of-rand-float32-and-rand-float64-thread-2/105184):
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> A recent [hackernews post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37926005) lead me to necro [https://discourse.julialang.org/t/output-distribution-of-rand/12192](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/output-distribution-of-rand/12192). If we want to reopen that can, I think a new thread is in order. Summary rand(), and much more acutely rand(Float32) generate a uniformly distributed random floating point number in the unit interval. In actuality, these functions generate a uniformly distributed fixed-point number in the unit interval, and convert it to floating point. This means that the output distribution close to …

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