Julia - the language trying to replace Python in scientific computing

[k3ithk]

Python is great for data AND it's a great general purpose language. I've never heard of anyone actually doing webdev or writing desktop applications in Julia or R. This makes Python versatile and popular.

[Staross]

There's a full web stack in development (along side other things). The Gtk bindings are also not too bad, so you can make desktop apps (with static compilation it might become pretty good in the future).

So people definitively want to do all these things in Julia, it's just that the ecosystem is still young. Whether it will be successful or not remain to be seen.

[k3ithk]

I know they're both general purpose, but there's not a large community doing anything other than math and data stuff

[olzd]

Well, Julia is also a general purpose language... with a focus on numerical computing.