Why I Don’t Post Julia Programming Language Videos Anymore?
I’ve received a few questions about why I don’t post videos about Julia Programming Language as frequently as I used to. So, I wanted to share the honest reasons behind it.
The audience is relatively small and inconsistent
One of the biggest challenges is that Julia-related content simply doesn’t get watched as frequently as content around more mainstream programming languages. Even when I spend a significant amount of time researching, coding, recording, and editing a video, the number of viewers can be quite low.
For a YouTuber, consistency matters and it becomes difficult to justify spending many hours producing content that only reaches a small audience.
Likes don’t always translate into actual viewership
Sometimes a video may receive a surprisingly positive number of likes, but the watch time and views don’t seem to match that level of engagement.
I genuinely appreciate developers who like my videos just to support the channel ❤️. But from a content creator’s perspective, watching the video, retaining viewers, commenting, and sharing are much more meaningful signals than simply pressing the Like button.
So please don’t feel obligated to like a video just because you want to support me. If the topic is useful to you, watching it is the best support.
Julia’s ecosystem requires more research before making content
This is probably one of the biggest practical challenges.
For many Julia packages and topics, the documentation, examples, tutorials, and community resources aren’t always extensive enough for a YouTuber to quickly understand a package and produce a high-quality video about it.
Often, I have to study the package, experiment with it, build examples, troubleshoot issues, and understand the underlying concepts before I can confidently teach it.
That’s a good thing from a learning perspective, but it doesn’t work very well with the tight production schedule required to consistently publish YouTube videos.
It’s difficult to find enough video topics
With larger ecosystems, there are constantly new libraries, frameworks, releases, tutorials, tools, and trends that can become video topics.
With Julia, the pool of topics that I can confidently turn into a useful, beginner-friendly video is comparatively smaller.
The audience is often highly technical
Julia users tend to be very capable developers, researchers, scientists, and technical professionals. That’s fantastic, but it also means that some topics are too specialized for a broad YouTube audience.
A highly technical topic might be extremely valuable to a small group of people while being almost invisible to the larger YouTube recommendation system.
The YouTube algorithm also plays a role
YouTube naturally favors topics with a larger potential audience and stronger viewer retention.
When a programming video has a very specific audience, it can be difficult for the algorithm to find enough people who are interested in it. This makes it harder for niche Julia content to gain momentum, even when the content itself is useful.
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Does this mean I’ve stopped using Julia?
Not at all. ❤️
I still think Julia is a fascinating language, especially for scientific computing, numerical computing, performance-oriented applications, and technical research.
The decision is mainly about content creation, not about whether Julia is a good programming language.
If the Julia community grows, documentation and learning resources continue improving, and there is enough demand for regular content, I’d be very happy to create more Julia videos again.
And if you’re one of the people who has watched, commented, shared, or supported my Julia videos over the years, thank you.🙏
Your support is genuinely appreciated.
What Julia topics would you actually want to see on this channel? Let me know in the comments. 👇
Do you agree that the Julia community should actively use AI to improve documentation of codebases? Please explain your reasoning, concerns, or experiences using AI for documentation.
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Why I Don’t Post Julia Programming Language Videos Anymore?
I’ve received a few questions about why I don’t post videos about Julia Programming Language as frequently as I used to. So, I wanted to share the honest reasons behind it.
The audience is relatively small and inconsistent
One of the biggest challenges is that Julia-related content simply doesn’t get watched as frequently as content around more mainstream programming languages. Even when I spend a significant amount of time researching, coding, recording, and editing a video, the number of viewers can be quite low.
For a YouTuber, consistency matters and it becomes difficult to justify spending many hours producing content that only reaches a small audience.
Likes don’t always translate into actual viewership
Sometimes a video may receive a surprisingly positive number of likes, but the watch time and views don’t seem to match that level of engagement.
I genuinely appreciate developers who like my videos just to support the channel ❤️. But from a content creator’s perspective, watching the video, retaining viewers, commenting, and sharing are much more meaningful signals than simply pressing the Like button.
So please don’t feel obligated to like a video just because you want to support me. If the topic is useful to you, watching it is the best support.
Julia’s ecosystem requires more research before making content
This is probably one of the biggest practical challenges.
For many Julia packages and topics, the documentation, examples, tutorials, and community resources aren’t always extensive enough for a YouTuber to quickly understand a package and produce a high-quality video about it.
Often, I have to study the package, experiment with it, build examples, troubleshoot issues, and understand the underlying concepts before I can confidently teach it.
That’s a good thing from a learning perspective, but it doesn’t work very well with the tight production schedule required to consistently publish YouTube videos.
It’s difficult to find enough video topics
With larger ecosystems, there are constantly new libraries, frameworks, releases, tutorials, tools, and trends that can become video topics.
With Julia, the pool of topics that I can confidently turn into a useful, beginner-friendly video is comparatively smaller.
The audience is often highly technical
Julia users tend to be very capable developers, researchers, scientists, and technical professionals. That’s fantastic, but it also means that some topics are too specialized for a broad YouTube audience.
A highly technical topic might be extremely valuable to a small group of people while being almost invisible to the larger YouTube recommendation system.
The YouTube algorithm also plays a role
YouTube naturally favors topics with a larger potential audience and stronger viewer retention.
When a programming video has a very specific audience, it can be difficult for the algorithm to find enough people who are interested in it. This makes it harder for niche Julia content to gain momentum, even when the content itself is useful.
---
Does this mean I’ve stopped using Julia?
Not at all. ❤️
I still think Julia is a fascinating language, especially for scientific computing, numerical computing, performance-oriented applications, and technical research.
The decision is mainly about content creation, not about whether Julia is a good programming language.
If the Julia community grows, documentation and learning resources continue improving, and there is enough demand for regular content, I’d be very happy to create more Julia videos again.
And if you’re one of the people who has watched, commented, shared, or supported my Julia videos over the years, thank you.🙏
Your support is genuinely appreciated.
What Julia topics would you actually want to see on this channel?
Let me know in the comments. 👇
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