Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around Julia

I messed with it a little, found some things that were weird to me but I couldn’t be bothered to figure them out, plus, Julia was really just a language for technical computing, and I’m a professional string mangler, so what’s the point, right? I’m consistently amazed that Julia is not only good at general programming tasks, but that it frequently is better for general problems than most of the other languages I like. Standard streams and command-line arguments are in the default namespace, file read functions default to stdin, newlines are omitted by default when iterating over lines (why are Julia and Bash the only languages that get this?) What are some things we might do as a community to promote Julia as a general-purpose language which is great in many domains including but not limited to technical computing?

Source: discourse.julialang.org