Lots of guesses as to what Julia can or can't do in here, primarily by peopl who obviously don't follow the progress of the language. Slowdown? I'm following Julia closely, and I have quite a hard time doing my job and keeping up with commits and the issue/pr tracker at the same time. That Julia doesn't get as much PR now that it's a bit more mature cannot be too surprising. How many articles have you read lately about the thousands and thousands of people who will be learning C(++) over the coming years? Not many I guess, but does that mean C is dead?