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

Yep. And the complex setup that it requires, is a non-solution.
I would rather ditch the entire language, then using that.

I can, in every single language, popular and non-popular, fire
up VS Code and start scripting.

If Julia forces me to create custom packages and follow a quite involved process
just to use a REPL, you simply lose a lot of people at that point.

If you think this is hyperbolic, then we have a case of organizational blindness here.

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