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Am I the only one who sees a big PR push for Julia? Up until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it. Not I see it all over, frequently touted as the "one languag

Am I the only one who sees a big PR push for Julia? Up until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it. Not I see it all over, frequently touted as the "one language to rule them all."

bbatha 8y ago
It hit 1.0 about a month ago. Its always been a pretty exciting language, but it was hard to seriously use it without stability for an ecosystem to build around.
3rdAccount 8y ago
*one language to rule them all as far as numerical/scientific programming and at some point data analysis. It is a general purpose language, but I don't think it is that much better than python in the scripting space (probably less good for now).
cormullion 8y ago
This may be an example of the frequency illusion, or Baader-Meinhof effect, which I've only recently become aware of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ... The vast Julia PR machine is certainly earning its million dollar bonuses this month... (But you're right, of course; with a stable release out, people are now able to use and promote the language more effectively.)
simondanisch 8y ago
I think a lot of people had prepared articles, packages etc for the 1.0 release - and now they're slowly getting released ;) If you're a Julia developer, the release definitely motivates you to put in the extra work and try to release your material around the same time!