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Julia would have seen more adoption with:

--> proper learning resources for beginners, but also for intermediate and advanced users. As of now resources are relatively sparse, compared to what you would find in the Python world.

--> a dedicated IDE. Python has several.

Otherwise it's a great clean language, faster and more elegant than Python. It's a shame it got stuck in Python's shadow.

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We've tried our hand at writing such a resource for Julia's tooling and workflows:

https://modernjuliaworkflows.org

This is great. I wonder if anyone would write a 'how to program + CS' book using Julia. Python has a dozen. Julia only has one (Think Julia but this book is just a presentation of syntax and doesn't teach how to program.).

Still, for Linear Algebra, Julia is vastly better than Python in all sorts of ways. A recent Julia book by No Starch press is a good step, but this book, too, is not focused on teaching beginners how to write software.

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