Julia Developer Survey 2020

Dear Participant,

You are invited to participate in the second annual Julia user and developer survey. The results of this survey will be presented in time for JuliaCon 2020 this summer and will also be made publicly available online. We value your time and appreciate your participation. This survey consists of 31-35 questions and is expected to take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete.

You can complete this survey in English, Chinese, Japanese or Spanish. Please select your preferred language in the top right corner of the survey.

Your participation is voluntary and anonymous, and no personal information will ever be shared.

Please feel free to forward to colleagues and friends who are Julia users.

Thank you for your participation!

Sincerely,

Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, Viral Shah and Alan Edelman

Julia Co-Creators

1. How frequently do you use each of the following languages?

Rows	Great deal	Some	None
Julia
Bash, Shell, PowerShell
C
C++
C#
Clojure
Elixir
Fortran
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp
Lua
Maple
Mathematica, Wolfram
MATLAB
Octave
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
SAS
Scala
SQL
Stata
Swift
Typescript

2. How much do you like each of the following languages?

Rows	One of my favorite languages	Like	Neutral	Dislike	Don’t know, no opinion
Julia
Bash, Shell, PowerShell
C
C++
C#
Clojure
Elixir
Fortran
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp
Lua
Maple
Mathematica, Wolfram
MATLAB
Octave
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
SAS
Scala
SQL
Stata
Swift
Typescript

3. Thinking only about the TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the TECHNICAL aspects or features you like MOST about Julia? Please select all that apply.

4. Thinking only about the NON-TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the NON-TECHNICAL aspects or features you like MOST about Julia? Please select all that apply.

5. Thinking only about the TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the TECHNICAL aspects or features you like LEAST about Julia? Please select all that apply.

6. Thinking only about the NON-TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the NON-TECHNICAL aspects or features you like LEAST about Julia? Please select all that apply.

7. Thinking about the tasks for which you use Julia, if you weren’t using Julia for these tasks, what programming language would you be using? Please select all that apply.

8. Why did you start using Julia? Please select all that apply.

9. Which of the following best describe your use of Julia? Please select all that apply.

10. When did you first start using Julia? ENTER YEAR (2012-2020)

11. What percent of the programming work you do is in Julia?

12. What are some of your favorite Julia packages? Please select all that apply.

13. Which of the following types of Julia packages have you contributed to, created or developed? Please mark all that apply.

Rows	Created, developed	Contributed to, but did not create or develop	Neither created/developed nor contributed
Open source and registered in the Julia General Registry
Open source but not registered in the Julia General Registry
Private and registered in a private registry
Private and not registered in a private registry
Deprecated or abandoned

14. Which editors or IDEs do you use frequently? Please select all that apply.

15. Which cloud or HPC solutions, if any, do you use together with Julia? Please select all that apply.

16. How helpful and collaborative is the Julia community?

17. Have you attended or do you plan to attend JuliaCon? Please select all that apply.

18. How did you download/install the Julia version you most frequently use?

19. With which operating system(s) do you use Julia most frequently? Please select all that apply.

20. Which hardware accelerators, if any, do you use together with Julia? Please select all that apply.

21. Which of the following best describes you? Please select all that apply.

21.1.a IF ACADEMIC: Which of the following best describes you? Please select all that apply.

21.1.b IF PROFESSIONAL: Which of the following best describes you? Please select all that apply.

21.2.a IF PROFESSIONAL What is the primary industry in which you work?

21.2.b IF ACADEMIC: What is your primary field of study or research?

22. Which of the following do you use as a part of your work? Please select all that apply.

23. How many years of professional experience do you have?

24. What is your age?

25. What is the country or region where you currently live or work?

26. What is the country where you are originally from?

27. In what language(s) are you fluent? Please select all that apply.

28. Which of the following best describes your race or ethnicity?

Other

29. Are you a:

30. Do you identify as LGBTQ?

31. Do you identify as underrepresented in science or computing because of your:

The following questions are for statistical purposes only.