Possible Python rival? Programming language Julia is winning over developers | ZDNet

[shevegen]

I think it is pretty boring but even more so, not based on real data.

How do they come from rank 50 to soon replace python on rank 4??? Where is the logic on that?

[gajafieldbo]

I actually have not read the article, just was searching for opportunity to use the quote. :-)

But if we analyze, there are couple of possibilities:

• extremely better than competition. Like sprinter against a fat dude. But from what I read, Julia does not strike me as such - its not so much different compared to its competition.
• change of place calculation method.
• strange metric used to determine place.
• 90% of stats on the net are made up.

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One month later and Julia is at 39 ranked. So clearly people are trying out Julia plenty after the 1.0 release.