I would highly recommend reading this recent post in the Julia forums [1]. It's from a "relatively new" Julia user explaining why Julia is actually a very good

I would highly recommend reading this recent post in the Julia forums [1]. It's from a "relatively new" Julia user explaining why Julia is actually a very good general purpose language, e.g. for string manipulation of scraped data. You do have a good point about packages, though: The problem is that the user base is smaller than Python's so some packages have yet to be created. And since the userbase is currently largely numerical programmers, non-numerical packages are more likely to be missing. [1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-computing-changing-the-narrative-around-the-usecase-for-julia/19784 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/not-only-for-technical-com...