I've been following Julia for many years now and it hasn't quite picked up outside the Data Science/Research communities. I'm at a loss to understand why it hasn't gone mainstream. Technically, isn't this a superior language to everything out there if you are getting performance + readability?<p>To start the discussion, maybe one factor could be the lack of a package manager like npm/crate. What else?
Something I always try with new (to me) languages: write a short script to<p>(1) load a .txt file containing space-delimited columns of data;<p>(2) fit a linear model in which one column is predicted by a linear combination of the others;<p>(3) plot the predicted values again the actual values using dots and overlay a y=x line<p>Tried this with Julia a short while ago and basically gave up, couldn’t figure out how to get something to plot. Has the Julia-verse changed? Is it easier now?<p>I can do this in MATLAB in basically 3 or 4 lines of code. Python, not much more than that.