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I'd like to throw my opinion in as well to add to this. Julia's syntax and language design is brilliant, but the biggest reason Julia has been my favorite lang

I'd like to throw my opinion in as well to add to this. Julia's syntax and language design is brilliant, but the biggest reason Julia has been my favorite language since I first learned to program is how astonishingly easy it is to use tools other people have made, and also to create tools for others to use. The packaging system is just great for development, both as a user, and as a maintainer. I've been surprised by how easy it is to take stuff I've made and get it to work with a myriad of packages for the purposes I need. Multiple dispatch does wonders here too. In the recent survey they said that 30% of respondents had contributed to a package. 30%! It's a super active ecosystem and the barrier of entry is low enough where I don't feel "imposter syndrome" as strongly as I have elsewhere--that I need to pass some threshold in order to properly contribute.

usgroup 6y ago
Are malicious packages a problem for Julia?
- eigenspace 6y ago
  As far as I'm aware, it has not been a problem yet, though it's likely only a matter of time as the language community grows. I see conversations happening regularly on how to detect and combat this though. It's a hard problem to combat, because fundamentally, package code must be able to do arbitrary things. One advantage julia has though is that packages tend to be written in pure julia, which makes the duty of checking and detecting malicious code much easier.