# 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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**Post date:** [September 4, 2023, 5:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-steps-should-the-julia-community-take-to-bring-julia-to-the-next-level-of-popularity/101389/578 "2023-09-04T05:00:05Z")

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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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