Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
Ten years after the original “Why We Created Julia” post, the Julia blog asked its community to write back. About a hundred people did, each with a short, signed note. Most of them start the same way: someone tired of prototyping in Python or MATLAB and then rewriting the slow parts in C, who tried Julia out of curiosity and never left. There is an R job that went from eighteen hours to five minutes, and code running on aircraft collision-avoidance systems and lunar missions.
What I liked most is how often the story turns on a first pull request. Someone fixes a small thing, gets a careful review or a thumbs-up from a core developer, and a few years later is the one reviewing. That matched my own start in the Julia world, through JuliaSmoothOptimizers, TagBot and Qiskit.jl, closely enough that reading it felt a little like reading about people I already knew.
Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later, The Julia Blog.