Tell HN: Jobs posted on Stackoverflow are finally asking for Julia

12 points·galfarragem··3 comments

I use to track trends on Stackoverflow jobs[0] and just recently I found jobs with Julia as a requirement. I also track package creation rate on major languages and Julia is now on the same level as Elixir, R or Swift.

Disclaimer: I'm not involved in Julia. I don't even use the language, it's just some "trivia" and trend recognition.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?tl=julia

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Are they really though? It’s very common to put down something like “Python/R/Julia” as a way to indicate that they need some experience with a data science programming language but the actual job is in only one of those languages and it’s almost always Python.

I can't see any Julia jobs in the link you shared.

I believe they are not "Julia-first" jobs but at least the job market is now aware that Julia exists. It's a start.

They're not Julia-second or -third either. Having the name in job ads isn't a new thing, it's been the case since at least 2018.

In the past year I've looked at hundreds of data science / ML / scientific computing / software developer job postings - 0 of them required Julia (also none for R and MATLAB). It was all Python.

Of course my sample might be biased and those jobs do exist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language)#N...) but Julia is still tiny and I certainly wouldn't say that the job market is aware or interested in it.

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