It’s true that the majority of the Julia community comes from a scientific or engineering background, and this is reflected in the package ecosystem and some of the “embedded” language features for technical computing. However I feel like stressing Julia as a “technical language” any more than it currently is may scare away people that may want to use it for other purposes, such as a general purpose scripting language.

Now more than ever before, with the improved code caching in 1.9, Julia lends itself perfectly for interactive usage and day-to-day scripting.