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

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389>\
**Category:** Community\
**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:** ![Eben60](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eben60/32/13475_2.png) [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389/564 "2023-09-03T20:30:48Z")

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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](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757) could help.

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

```julia
@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)

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