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

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**Category:** Community\
**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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**Author:** ![tim.holy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tim.holy/32/52_2.png) [@tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tim.holy)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-dont-you-like-about-julia-for-serious-work/54591/73 "2021-02-09T13:57:25Z")

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> [@chunkulator](#):
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> For us this meant that the code was so slow it would take tens of minutes to hit the breakpoints we wanted.

There is a way to speed up the debugger a lot: [Debugging extremely slow - #4 by tim.holy](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/debugging-in-juno-extremely-slow/53801/4)

> [@chunkulator](#):
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> I don’t really understand why the Julia community is not addressing this fundamental flaw.

It needs people willing to donate their time. A lot of it. We got as far as we are now through some pretty massive time donations, but if it’s going to get better then others who care need to step forward. If you’re thinking, “that’s not going to be me!”, well, now you understand why this fundamental flaw is not being addressed.

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