I feel like people are perhaps a bit overly negative about the state of Julia's packages. Compared to other early-stage languages, I'd say our package ecosystem

I feel like people are perhaps a bit overly negative about the state of Julia's packages. Compared to other early-stage languages, I'd say our package ecosystem is vibrant and full of fantastic packages. Naturally perhaps they are more math/scientific focussed, so if you are looking for cutting-edge packages for web dev you won't find them yet (although there are packages!). See http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html, for example. We have over 470 packages in total that are registered, and on Julia 0.3 we have over 300 packages with tests that pass - and we run the tests in all registered packages every night. Some of my favorite packages (that I didn't make, of course :D) would include https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl https://github.com/JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl https://github.com/pluskid/Mocha.jl https://github.com/pluskid/Mocha.jl (deep learning) https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl The JuliaOpt stack of optimization packages (http://juliaopt.org http://juliaopt.org) and then you get fun new ones like https://github.com/anthonyclays/RomanNumerals.jl https://github.com/anthonyclays/RomanNumerals.jl