[krastanov]

There is another important niche I am particularly excited about: programming language research geeks and lisp geeks. The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code.

[vletal]

> The pervasive multiple-dispatch in Julia provides such a beautiful way to architecture a complicated piece of code.

On the other hand it makes function discovery almost impossible [1]. Combined with the way how 'using' keyword exports a predefined subset of functions, this makes the language doomed from larger adoption outside of academia at least as long as there is no superb autocompletion and IDE support.

[1] https://discourse.julialang.org/t/my-mental-load-using-julia...

[mccoyb]

Have you seen Shuhei Kadowaki's work on JET.jl (?)

If you're curious: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl

This may seem more about performance (than IDE development) but Shuhei is one of the driving contributors behind developing the capabilities to use compiler capabilities for IDE integration -- and indeed JET.jl contains the kernel of a number of these capabilities.

[pjmlp]

Yep, that is my niche.

[ampdepolymerase]

Those two niches don't pay. They are effectively useless outside of the occasional evangelism on HN.

[pjmlp]

Who do you think puts money to action on LLVM, GCC, Swift, Rust, .NET (C#, F#, VB), Scala,....?

[UncleOxidant]

There's a Compiler and Runtime Engineer position listed at https://juliacomputing.com/jobs/ which presumably pays money.

[trenchgun]

Money does not create code, humans do.

[xiaodai]

Money don't do jobs, humans do.

You see the logical fallacy in ur argument now?