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I’m a bit surprised Julia is ranked below Python for how much developers love the language. I’ve programmed extensively in both, and with Julia it’s an absolute

• KenoFischer 6y ago
  Honestly, I'm pretty happy there were enough responses for them to actually call it out separately in the results. I'm not sure that was the case last year. Also, I think Julia's audience tends to not hang out on StackOverflow as much, since they're often scientists primarily and software developers second. Sure they use StackOverflow, but how many have an account and would answer a survey.
  • s1t5 6y ago
    > Also, I think Julia's audience tends to not hang out on StackOverflow as much, since they're often scientists primarily and software developers second. My impression is the opposite. Julia forces you to think more about CS concepts early on (which is nice) while with Python or R you can get further by just figuring out the syntax for what you want to do and not worrying about how your code is executed.
    • KenoFischer 6y ago
      Sure, that seems plausible, but I still don't think that translates into the kind of user that would take the StackOverflow survey, which I suspect to mostly be users that are quite active on StackOverflow. More generally, I'm seeing StackOverflow metrics underperform on Julia compared to other languages (as opposed to things like Discourse usage for example).