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

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To begin with, you are asking in a rather suboptimal way, sorry for being direct. The tips in Please read: make it easier to help you could help.

I have therefore no idea what is wrong in your case. My results are as following:

@time begin
    function add(x,y)
        x + y
    end
    println(add(3, 3.14))
end

#
6.140000000000001
  0.020796 seconds (25.63 k allocations: 1.714 MiB, 82.16% compilation time)

(Mac Mini M1. My old Windows computer would be by a factor 2 or 3 slower)
PS - Using VS Code (scripting mode)