I think julia has evolved a ton over the past few years and a lot of work has gone into making things that aren't numerical computing feel like first class uses

I think julia has evolved a ton over the past few years and a lot of work has gone into making things that aren't numerical computing feel like first class uses of the language. A very popular thing right now in the community is people making websites, dashboards, visualization tools, etc. with julia. There's a lot of people thinking about things like string handling due to NLP, bioinformatics and a few other technical fields that don't use the same standard datatypes you'd expect from an engineer or whatever. I do a lot of random hobby programming, often building random tools that aren't necessarily numerical programming related and I find it quite natural and easy to make these things highly performant (often with no runtime overhead).