# What steps should the Julia community take to bring Julia to the next level of popularity?

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**Created:** [July 9, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389 "2023-07-09T09:59:36Z")
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### Author: ![aalexandersson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/aalexandersson/32/2927_2.png) [@aalexandersson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/aalexandersson)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2023, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389/302 "2023-07-28T00:49:46Z")

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I mostly do probabilistic record linkage or **PRL** (also known as entity resolution, fuzzy merging, merging messy datasets, etc) at work, using either the R package [fastLink](https://github.com/kosukeimai/fastLink) or the Python package [splink](https://moj-analytical-services.github.io/splink/).

I would like to see a Julia package for PRL because it likely could be much faster. There is no Julia package available for this that I am aware of. Some development in 2020 was discussed at [https://discourse.julialang.org/t/entity-resolution-duplicate-data-in-julia/33860](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/entity-resolution-duplicate-data-in-julia/33860). Then, I mentioned the two packages [SpineBasedRecordLinkage.jl](https://github.com/JockLawrie/SpineBasedRecordLinkage.jl), which only does _deterministic_ record linkage, and [BayesianRecordLinkage.jl](https://github.com/brendanstats/BayesianRecordLinkage.jl) which unfortunately no longer is being developed because the developer graduated and moved on to working on other things.

I am not aware of any progress in Julia but there is plenty of development in R (fastLink) and Python (splink). PRL is a big use case, which is relatively easy in R and Python but seemingly difficult in Julia (and in popular commercial stat software such as Stata and SAS). A PRL package in Julia could be a “killer” package for Julia.

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