The release of Julia 2.0 could spark additional interest in the Julia community and thus, provide a unique opportunity to promote Julia. What steps should the Julia community take from now until the release of Julia 2.0 to bring Julia to the next level of popularity?

Exactly. It seems to me that things are actually going fine. We just need to keep that moving. Julia is almost entirely built on pull requests to base and packages. Code, docs whatever: PRs are where things actually happen and real decisions and changes are made. Not in these threads. So improving…

[image] xiaoxi: Those case studies are great. I wish Julia lang’s website had something similar. My assumption is that the JuliaLang.org (the open source community) and JuliaHub (the commerical organization) are trying to maintain their separation.

Anyone can create their own case-study blog post about how they use Julia at their company for julialang.org … but (speaking from experience) it can be hard to get sign-offs and approvals from legal teams for them to use their company name. At JuliaHub we’re always trying to get more case studies fr…

Think one huge problem is Julia attracts a grad school crowd. The developers of a lot of packages graduate and then get python jobs. Then they have no time to maintain these libraries and they atrophy. Maybe someone decides to build a new package for the same thing – to get it to work in the contemp…

[image] mihalybaci: My assumption is that the JuliaLang.org (the open source community) and JuliaHub (the commerical organization) are trying to maintain their separation. It seems that some of those case studies don’t use JuliaHub services, so it might be possible to have them on the Julia …

Besides that, I think there’s just a refusal to accept that the Julia ecosystem often fixates on the wrong things. The Julia community is perfectionist when it comes to design, but not when it comes to execution. In some cases, sloppy execution in the ecosystem can be put down to a lack of investmen…

Better online documentation. Take a look at the php online documentation. Let take a simple example, if you want to look up the floor function. If you google Julia floor. you are sent to Mathematics · The Julia Language , and then you have to find the floor function near the end of that page. Wh…

This is kinda what does jlhub . But if every function could have some basic examples, that would probably help new users a lot. Also, jlhub lacks syntax highlighting.

Is this a fair description of Julia? Are people outside the Julia community well aware of the pros and cons of Julia? Julia is faster than Python, more suitable to write large systems in it than R and less expensive than Matlab. So, speed, scalability and being open source make Julia an attractive…

[image] xiaoxi: Why would Julia require more programming skills? To use Julia well requires understanding several computer science ideas that the average say “biologist who picked up some R while writing their masters thesis” wouldn’t have. Among these: Duck typing and multiple dispatch Loo…

[image] dlakelan: Duck typing and multiple dispatch Looping and iterators vs vectorization, and broadcasting Metaprogramming and macros Macro hygiene Packages and Environments Various choices of numeric types and binary arithmetic implementations (R uses doubles almost everywhere) User defined …

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

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