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Trying to think of others.

Kotlin was 2011, and is JetBrains. JetBrain's is 1500 people. So big, but not giant.

Rust is 2013 Mozilla is only 750 people

So perhaps Major Tech Giant is over-stating it. But definately most other things in the last decade have a major established tech firm backing it.

Julia has basically nothing. Starting out as a MIT project, and then Julia Computing is a tiny startup; with like what 50 people now?

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Hi Lyndon. Yes, but that's exactly what I meant! I think my phrasing was off. For a company of that size, I've seen very good activity promoting the julia brand, both officially and through word-of-mouth networks. (your own Cambridge meetups notwithstanding). Therefore, I think much of the hype is at least partly that, rather than just the technical merits of the language (which I agree it has plenty). I don't remember this kind of 'buzz' before v1. Back then it was just people who saw promise in its features. Now people seem to be promoting it quite actively.

I've seen a shift in the winds, that's all I'm saying. I wasn't mean to come off so negative. (certainly not as negative as Chris took it!)

Thanks for the explanation. I feel that Julia has always been well received on HN ever since we publicly announced it in 2012. I believe that post v1, there are just more users out there and more blogs are being written, more companies are using it, more universities are teaching it, and hence more stories are making their way to HN.

Nowadays, I find new Julia stories and posts when they show up on HN (as opposed to a few years ago when all you had to do was follow juliabloggers).

Hey, the Julia open source organization did have an undergrad in his senior year working part time on community management though. Can't leave that out. We don't know if JetBrain or Mozilla had something like that.

Julia Computing is about 40 people, and that is a recent thing.

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