[cookieperson]

Honestly, I'd stick with python or learn a statically compiled language to broaden your world. I spent years in the Julia situation and it's more of a cult than anything else. If you ever end up with a job asking for Julia(not likely), you can pick it up in a week or so of free time after some muscle memory kicks in.

[freilanzer]

> I spent years in the Julia situation and it's more of a cult than anything else

What is a "Julia situation" and how is a programming language a cult? It's used by companies, programmers, scientists, etc. to do stuff. This is a strange take.

[cookieperson]

Hop into any of the Julia communities online. Hang out for a month. It's very culty.

[freilanzer]

Source: just trust me, bro.

[cookieperson]

I offered you a simple test you can perform so you can trust yourself after performing it.

[freilanzer]

You offered nothing besides FUD. I regularly read the forums and I don't know what you're referring to.

[cookieperson]

Get involved in the community. You'll see. This isn't FUD. It's observations of someone who has been very active in the community since well before the 1.0 release.

[cjalmeida]

Cult? That's a very bad take. It's a tool, great for some stuff, rough edges here and there.

People invest huge amount of effort fixing Python's shortcomings (pyspark, tf, jax, mojo) requiring a completely different way of thinking modulo the syntax. And nobody is talking about the "cult of the snake"

[cookieperson]

It's not culty to make packages for a language. It is culty to work 12 hrs a day to appease Julia computing for free to have your work taken renamed and offered to the community with different names on the authors list.

[cjalmeida]

This is a bold statement. Can you provide references?

[cookieperson]

Sure graphs.jl used to be lightgraphs.jl. rumor has it the author was bullied out of the community for their personal beliefs which had nothing to do with graphs or programming. Then the Julia crew took the project and sunset the lightgraphs guys work. There are other cases of stuff like this happening but I'm too lazy. Just go ahead spend a few years in the community contributing, good times ahead. Keep in mind, if you aren't paying for the product you are the product.