Lots of truths there but also colored by someone who evidently has not been a fan of technologies before and seen how it works. I am not as pessimistic as a Ju

Lots of truths there but also colored by someone who evidently has not been a fan of technologies before and seen how it works. I am not as pessimistic as a Julia fan. Why? Because I have been where this guy is now ever since I was an Amiga user. I was like that with Python, Ruby, Go and a whole other languages. And what I learned from that is that it takes time. Neither Python, Ruby or Go had success over night. Yet almost all these languages I homed in on in the past have seen what I would call success later. I was certain Perl would go downhill when it was at its top. I kept argue with Perl fans that Python was a cleaner language that would see more success. Ditto with Ruby. That turned out to be quite accurate. I said while D looked like a nice replacement for C++, it simply wasn't big enough improvement to go anywhere. That also seems to have been an accurate prediction. Go on the other hand had a very obvious appeal from the get go. It did something important different and sufficiently better than before while keeping things simple. I am confident about Julia, because I have not in 20 years since a language with so much potential and so many advantages. You just got to give it time. This reminds me of myself following solar and wind energy in the early 90s and deciding it was not going anywhere. Ironically I see people like Michael Shellenberger having become a cynic about wind and solar now that it has actually achieved some measure of success. Why? Because it didn't happen fast enough. He poured all his enthusiasm and hope into this industry long before there was reasons to do so. People have to be aware of the same about Julia. It is not taking over the world any time soon. There is a long road ahead. And I would not define success as getting to Python scale. But if Julia can get to a similar position as Go is today, then I would call that success.