Yeah I think Julia deserves a lot more usage and popularity. It is just a really well designed language for almost any kind of development.

I don't see why Julia could not displace Ruby, Python, R, Matlab in all areas. I am talking theoretical. Building out mindset, software packages and tools to do that naturally requires time.

My biggest worry about Julia today is that the dominance and specialization within scientific computing becomes so entrenched that people don't take it serious as a general purpose programming language.

I remember that way back in the day as an Amiga user. It was an awesome all around system that could do both games and serious work better than any PC. But because the Amiga happened to be really good at games and PCs absolutely sucked at the time doing any games, the Amiga got stuck with the gaming system label and could never break out of that.

I don't want Julia to be stuck in Academia. It would be an awesome language for so many other tasks. While doing iOS developement I wrote my build scripts in Julia. I wrote scripts for converting Subversion repos to Git in Julia. I wrote a GUI designing tool in Julia. For me it has been great for all sorts of non-scientific tasks and I hope more people can see that. It pains me to see so many people miss out on the Julia awesomeness. Their programming life could be so much more enjoyable.