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> This post overlooks that language adoption is something that happens over decades. It's much too early to conclude anything about Julia adoption. Spot on, I
by xtracto 6y ago
> This post overlooks that language adoption is something that happens over decades. It's much too early to conclude anything about Julia adoption.
Spot on, I was doing R back in 2005, when it was slowly become more famous. R fist official release was in 1995. Which means that it took R 26 years to get to the point where it is now. If Julia was launched on 2012, its tipping point may come 20 years later, around 2030.
- bachmeier 6y agoR is one of the languages I was thinking about, but even 1995 understates how long it took. R is an open source implementation of the S language that dates back to 1976.