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

[gdalle]

@xiaoxi

We seem to agree on where we want Julia to be in the near future, but for this to happen we need to agree on what steps Julia community needs to take in the next 6/12/18 months.

Seems like a good time to link to this post:

Why open-source timelines/roadmaps don't work

In my time working on Julia, I’ve seen a lot of requests for estimates of when some feature will be finished, or a roadmap for how it’s going to be accomplished. This post is intended to summarize why satisfying these requests is sometimes difficult or impossible, and address the much smaller issue of how such requests can occasionally come across as seeming entitled or ungrateful. Over time I’ve tried answering these requests in different ways, trying out different approaches for making the poi…

Essentially, it’s a bit tricky to barge into an open source community and ask for things to get done. In my view, the best way forward is to start an initiative, and let others follow if they want.
A recent success story is the monthly julia newsletter, so I have no doubt that such initiatives can succeed

This month in Julia world - 2023-06

A (potentially?) monthly newsletter, mostly on julia internals, digestible for casual observers. A biased, incomplete, editorialized list of what I found interesting this month, with contributions from the community. “Internals” Fora (Slack/Zulip/Discourse/GHissues/GHdiscussions): Wonderful learning materials on how to become a Julia compiler hacker (especially the first comment by ToucheSir). discourse Some musings on support for Interfaces in Julia by Keno, Valentin (of AVR fame), Rafael, a…