New features coming in Julia 1.7

Re:New features coming in Julia 1.7 by blindseer on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:21AM (#28757914)

I agree that the experience is extremely off putting. But having been in the community for almost 5 years now, I have to say there are super awesome lovely people that are mostly silently working in the background and very hard at that. The loud minority unfortunately is grating, and I do wish the stewards of the language established more strict guidelines on conduct or philosophy of the language. I don’t want to name names here, but when prominent members of the Julia community bash other programming languages while ignoring the painful friction in Julia, it comes across as very tone deaf and in poor taste, and does set a bad precedent.

I think having a weekly what’s great about Python/Rust/Go/Zig and how can we port this to Julia would be awesome, instead of the weekly gripes about Python/MATLAB/R.

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Re:New features coming in Julia 1.7 by qsort on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @09:57AM (#28759554)

> the weekly gripes about Python/MATLAB/R

At the cost of repeating the old Bjarne quote for the millionth time, you hear complaints because those are languages that people use in their day-to-day. If only Julia were more popular, you'd definitely see it get caught in the crossfire.

Also worth noting that in terms of intended audience Julia is more like Matlab and R than Python, most of the more abstract part of the discussion would likely apply to Julia to a lesser degree.

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Re:New features coming in Julia 1.7 by mbauman on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @03:44PM (#28764605)

As a moderator on the primary discussion board — discourse — please do flag problematic posts and/or DM me. We don't see everything and rely on flags.

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