24 engineers on Hacker News describe using Julia first-hand: 11 endorse it, 2 regret it, 5 are mixed.
“I have seen numerous cases where code ported from MATLAB or NumPy to Julia performed well over an order of magnitude faster”
endorse · production · mgkuhn · 2025-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are deploying a Julia service to production next release and haven't had any stability/GC/runtime issues”
mixed · production · csvance · 2025-10-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The load time improvements are amazing. Thanks to everyone that was involved. I've been using it locally for months now simply because of this feature”
endorse · personal · ChrisRackauckas · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I haven't used Julia a lot but to me it's in a weird spot where it would be ideal to start projects with in theory”
mixed · personal · mardifoufs · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The load time improvements are amazing... I've been using it locally for months now”
endorse · personal · ChrisRackauckas · 2023-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Julia almost exclusively”
endorse · production · sertbdfgbnfgsd · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Julia almost exclusively”
endorse · production · ykonstant · 2023-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Julia is a very nice language... My overriding feeling using it is that it is a language visiting from the future, it is very well put together.”
endorse · personal · DougBTX · 2022-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There are definitely some gripes I have with Julia's developer experience, but it also has some great parts.”
mixed · production · adgjlsfhk1 · 2022-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Most of the people I work with really like Julia, we have dabbled with it and would like to see it succeed”
endorse · personal · short_sells_poo · 2022-04-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as someone who has tinkered with it a lot but uses python/C++ for $day_job... however, all being said, I love the lang!”
mixed · personal · fault1 · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I believe Julia to be the future but so far the adoption rate in house has been low.”
endorse · personal · meztez · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been playing around with it. As a Python/MATLAB guy, the syntax is very friendly.”
endorse · personal · starpilot · 2019-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just wrote my first bit of Julia this weekend. I'm impressed - it's clearly been designed for technical/numeric computing”
endorse · personal · ThenAsNow · 2019-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main issue I encountered as a Julia user is that multiple dispatch doesn't scale very well.”
regret · personal · ritoune · 2019-02-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using it for math prototyping and it's recently replaced my old favorites like matlab / python / lua.”
endorse · personal · divbit · 2016-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Julia 0.3 for algorithmic trading in production for about 3 months now, and the language is truly, astoundingly productive.”
mixed · production · 0.25 yr · msravi · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had trouble with detecting in Julia what the effect of the garbage collector was”
regret · production · sixbrx · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“So don't trust that these old timings represent current julia”
neutral · personal · leiroigh · 2023-10-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm used to Julia where variable refers to the lexical form.”
neutral · personal · dnautics · 2018-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“In julia we switched to making method ambiguities a runtime error because you often end up with situations”
neutral · personal · KenoFischer · 2016-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Julia (running in IJulia) with D3 using either iframe communication, window.postMessage or hooking directly onto the websocket”
neutral · production · bluesmoon · 2015-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Julia through LightTable and Juno”
neutral · personal · CyberDildonics · 2014-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run the tests for every package every night on both Julia stable (0.3) and unstable (0.4)”
neutral · production · idunning · 2014-11-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?