# \#advocacy

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## [Julia in Formula 1](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-in-formula-1/79145)

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**Author:** [@johnh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/johnh)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [July 6, 2024, 1:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-in-formula-1/79145 "2024-07-06T13:10:17Z")

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I saw that the Juliahub logo is on the halo of Williams cars. I used to work for McLaren F1 - I would love to hear about how Julia is being used in F1.

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## [Why I use Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-i-use-julia/4819)

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**Author:** [@Nectarineimp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Nectarineimp)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [July 25, 2017, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-i-use-julia/4819 "2017-07-25T21:00:47Z")

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I want to state why I use Julia and what excites me about it so that others who come here looking to get an understanding of the language will be encouraged by someone who uses it professionally. I’d love to see replies …

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## [Julia at #31 on IEEE Spectrum "Top Programming Languages" for 2017](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-at-31-on-ieee-spectrum-top-programming-languages-for-2017/4979)

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**Author:** [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [July 22, 2017, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-at-31-on-ieee-spectrum-top-programming-languages-for-2017/4979 "2017-07-22T12:37:03Z")

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/static/interactive-the-top-programming-languages-2017 Results should be suspect as Perl (!!!) is at #18, and they’ve included HTML as a programming language.

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## [JuliaBox and other ways to expose new users to Julia](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-and-other-ways-to-expose-new-users-to-julia/4720)

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**Author:** [@anon94023334](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon94023334)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [July 7, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/juliabox-and-other-ways-to-expose-new-users-to-julia/4720 "2017-07-07T17:21:24Z")

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I wanted to report an issue with JuliaBox (should be simple to fix) and to suggest another avenue that I’ve found particularly helpful when evaluating a new language. JuliaBox currently only has 0.6.0-rc2 and 0.7.0-DE…