[thelastbender12]

Why is this comment necessary on every Julia-related post? I don't even use Julia outside tutorials but this adds no value beyond things that have already been said N number of times.

Every programming language doesn't need to become _the_ language to do something. They are experiments in how to best express what you want to compute. Even if Julia never takes off, they explore multiple directions other languages might want to implement - multiple dispatch for polymorphism, nested parallelism, macros so you can create DSLs from regular Julia code, and so much more. Asserting that Julia is only successful if everyone is using it is just super reductive.

[deepsun]

They probably want to say "why is this post necessary for every Julia release?".

[freilanzer]

Why not? If users didn't want to see it they wouldn't upvote it. So people want to see these posts. As simple as that. Why do we need this discussion on almost every Julia post that gets voted to the front page?

[deepsun]

Yep, I'm all up for it. Just replying to parent.

[331c8c71]

> Why is this comment necessary on every Julia-related post?

I think it's just a reaction to constantly seeing Julia being oversold and overmarketed in the geekosphere.

[amval]

Is it really oversold? Anytime there are Julia threads is much more common to find a reactionary take like the one that started this thread or some dismissal based on a superficial syntax complaint.

There _are_ legitimate complaints about the language (or more exactly, its runtime). Julia 1.9 is a significant milestone on addressing those.

Maybe Julia will not suceed on overtaking anything, but that is not because of a lack of merit.