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Glad you're enjoying it! "Hardly anyone uses it" isn't really accurate: Julia's in the top 50 languages on the Tiobe index (between Rust and VBScript this month
by StefanKarpinski 8y ago
Glad you're enjoying it! "Hardly anyone uses it" isn't really accurate: Julia's in the top 50 languages on the Tiobe index (between Rust and VBScript this month) [1] and in the top 30 of the IEEE Spectrum language rankings (IIRC, paywall) [2]. I'd say that's quite the opposite of "not taking off". Anecdotally, there are a lot of people on StackOverflow giving excellent, accurate answers these days and I have no idea who they are, which feels like a significant place for a language to get. Getting all the way to the top will take a bit of time :)
[1] https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
[2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-programming-languages https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/the-2017-top-pr...
- LolWolf 8y agoHonestly, just wanted to give a huge thanks for such an awesome language! I’ve truly been converted as a huge Python person into Julia and it’s been slowly taking over my research workflow since it’s just so fast and actually fun!
- Xcelerate 8y ago> "Hardly anyone uses it" isn't really accurate My apologies for the wording. I should have just said I wish it was used more in industry nowadays. And thanks for creating Julia btw! It's been a very enjoyable and productive language to program in.