Predicting language ecosystem development is difficult, especially if its about the future. It does feel that Julia may have missed its window of opportunity. But maybe not.
On the one hand Python's mindshare has been growing exponentially, riding on successive waves of data science, machine learning, deep learning, AI and now AGI hypes. NB: The two hypes it did not benefit from (for obvious reasons) are big data and crypto/blockchain. Given, though, Python's heavy historical baggage, you could think that eventually gravity would re-assert itself - with a potential crash landing.
So in a sense, if the mojo project succeeds becoming a very broad based renewal effort (a Python 4 thing) that fixes some of Python's limitations, it will lock-in Python's current amazing popularity. If not, then the field is still open for a challenger and Julia could well be that.
The broader technology space feels very febrile right now. Lots of talk, much less walk. The winners will be simply those who deliver tangible "next-gen" experiences to developers and end-users.
On the one hand Python's mindshare has been growing exponentially, riding on successive waves of data science, machine learning, deep learning, AI and now AGI hypes. NB: The two hypes it did not benefit from (for obvious reasons) are big data and crypto/blockchain. Given, though, Python's heavy historical baggage, you could think that eventually gravity would re-assert itself - with a potential crash landing.
So in a sense, if the mojo project succeeds becoming a very broad based renewal effort (a Python 4 thing) that fixes some of Python's limitations, it will lock-in Python's current amazing popularity. If not, then the field is still open for a challenger and Julia could well be that.
The broader technology space feels very febrile right now. Lots of talk, much less walk. The winners will be simply those who deliver tangible "next-gen" experiences to developers and end-users.