Did #julialang end up kinda stalling or at least plateau-ing lower than hoped?

I know it’s got its community and dedicated users and has continued development.

But without being in that space, and speculating now at a distance, it seems it might be an interesting case study in a tech/lang that just didn’t have landing spot it could arrive at in time as the tech-world & “data science” reshuffled while julia tried to grow … ?

Can a language ever solve a “two language” problem?

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  • Hrefna (DHC)@hachyderm.io
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    5 months ago

    @maegul

    In a real way it feels like there’s a “hump” with language adoption. Some languages clear it, some don’t, and I don’t think we have a good feel as an industry for what makes a language “successful” in this regard.

    Some things obviously help, other things obviously hurt, but mostly what succeeds or doesn’t seems to be a matter of luck intersecting with need.

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