It's a domain specific language, this is true, this is why it is not more popular. Python is a general purpose language with a capability to do numeric stuff and therefore it is popular. It's convenient to have a single tool where you can develop skills rather than spread your effort across many.
From a different point of view Julia is a domain specific language for scientific computing. Making vectors and matrices a built-in data type allows the language to include convenient Matlab-style syntax for working with vectors and matrices.
With over 10,000 registered packages
As for packages, they are generally for its domain. How many, for example, comprehensive web frameworks compared to other?
Statistics: Posted by andrew_pi — Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:00 am