Comment by Staross

I think there's quite a bit of "quiet work" going on that isn't very visible. Personally I've been happily using Julia for work everyday for years. When the language was younger there was "big" updates that were news worthy, now that slowed down, but it seems there's a decent number of people using the language for serious work that is just a bit too specialised for general interest. E.g. in recent registered packages there's a simulation of earth, a method to analyse EEG recording, or a method to measure loudness.

https://github.com/NumericalEarth/NumericalEarth.jl

https://github.com/Marco-Congedo/Xloreta.jl

https://github.com/slink/ZwickerLoudness.jl