[ummonk]

Drawbacks:

* A lot of packages are incompatible with the latest versions of Julia. Though because it has stabilized, this is likely to stop being an issue soon.

* There isn’t any major organization that has adopted it yet, which may impact its long term success in contrast to other new languages like go swift rust etc that have a major sponsor. Garbage collector makes it unsuitable for certain real time uses, which is unfortunate given its otherwise predictable performance characteristics.

* Although there are web frameworks for it, I’m not sure whether they are mature enough for production use.

* Personal pet peeve: no infix operator for integer division. I haven’t looked recently whether there is a package for this. I should probably make my own if not.

[KenoFischer]

> * Personal pet peeve: no infix operator for integer division.

Sure there is

    julia> 10 ÷ 3
    3

type as

``` 10 \div<tab> 3 ```

in any decent julia-capable environment (REPL, editors, notebooks, etc)

[ummonk]

Oh wow. I see it was just missing from the docs until May, which was why I hadn't seen it.

[leephillips]

The FAA is collaborating with Lincoln Labs to develop a new collision avoidance system using Julia¹. I don't know if that's the kind of thing you had in mind, but it's being used by many companies and universities on various projects, and is the language vehicle in a lot of courses on numerical analysis and related topics.

¹https://juliacomputing.com/case-studies/lincoln-labs.html

[ummonk]

Well, I was thinking more of an organization using it across the board, preferably one that is prominent enough to result in other copycat users.

(To be clear, I really love the Julia language, and use it quite a bit in personal projects - I'm just hoping that it gets strong adoption, since adoption is what drives the development of miscellaneous libraries and packages).

[dnautics]

The federal reserve bank has adopted it (for stress testing models? IIRC), I'd say that's pretty major.

[maxlybbert]

They may have additional projects, but I believe you’re talking about https://github.com/FRBNY-DSGE/DSGE.jl .