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Given you're referring to me and my career, can you explain what you mean about "worked on large community Python projects"? I don't see that text on the page you're citing. Is it an interpretation of "I’ve been part of teams working on a variety of things, including extensions to the Python language and A/B testing"?

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Hey John! Yes, you're accurate here in how I interpreted your work on extensions in the Python language. Let me know if that is in error, would love to hear an alternative opinion to Julia's growth and status. My subjective take has been that the initial excitement of Julia has waned a bit (a shame, it's a good language) and that it's not seeing strong adoption.

EDIT: That said, I just looked up the TIOBE index and it appears to be growing. My subjective take is likely in error here!

I still use Julia a lot and still think it is the best bet for a dynamic language with acceptable speed. I don't work on many OSS projects anymore, so I'm not an active contributor, but I'm not contributing to other languages in my spare time either. The projects you see in my "about" page are my paid efforts.

I think Julia's adoption is still not at all comparable to Python or R, but neither of those languages were comparably popular at this point in their own lifetimes. I think people underestimate how slow change is here.

Julia absolutely could fail to compete in the long run, but it is still growing and it is improving.

> . I don't work on many OSS projects anymore, so I'm not an active contributor, but I'm not contributing to other languages in my spare time either. The projects you see in my "about" page are my paid efforts.

I appreciate the clarification and correction. Apologies for muddying the water.

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