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It's true that Julia doesn't have big corporate backing, but it is certainly not only a research language. Julia is being actively used in a growing number of i
by StefanKarpinski 12y ago
It's true that Julia doesn't have big corporate backing, but it is certainly not only a research language. Julia is being actively used in a growing number of industry applications, not just in academia (finance, aerospace, etc.).
- hayd 12y agoI think it's fair to say that the quote does not reflect general Julia feeling. > Julia is from and for researchers. I think the actual criteria is being ["a greedy, unreasonable, demanding programmer"](http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/ http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/) i.e. everyone.
- rspeer 12y agoYou can say Julia is for everyone, but it's not informative. You could just as well (and just as uninformatively) say that Erlang is for everyone, or Rust is for everyone, or Haskell is for everyone. Each programming language has strengths and weaknesses that are the reason you use the language. Julia's strength so far is fast numerical algorithms, and that's what most people seem to use it for.