Comment by leephillips

“quite niche purposes”

I don’t understand this. Julia is a general-purpose language that I increasingly use to replace bash scripts. I’ve also happily used it for web scraping tasks¹, interactive web² projects³, generation of illustrations and animations, and, yes, scientific calculations. Aside from the language itself, which is fun to program in, its brilliant package system massively facilitates composing libraries into a solution.

1 https://lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaBookRanks

2 https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2025/85

3 https://lee-phillips.org/pluckit