Is Julia likely to become as massively popular as Python? Probably not. Is julia likely to become much bigger than it already is? Yes, I'd say so. Julia's valu

Is Julia likely to become as massively popular as Python? Probably not. Is julia likely to become much bigger than it already is? Yes, I'd say so. Julia's value proposition is mostly geared towards people trying to do things that are just too difficult, awkward or slow in other languages. It's not just about speed, dynamism and friendly syntax. It's also about solving the expression problem and providing unprecedented composability. So while it doesn't have great appeal to end users, it does appeal to people who make the sort of things end users want so the community is currently swelling with very talented people making state of the art research libraries. Honestly, whether these libraries attract hordes of 'scripters' or not, doesn't really matter to julia's usefulness to the people who use it currently. But I think that as julia's package ecosystem evolves and matures (We've only been at 1.0 for a year!), it's going to get more and more attractive to end users.