> Everytime Julia is mentioned on HN, I see a surprising amount of people who dislike the language for whatever reason.

I am mostly indifferent to the language (love the Jupyter equivalent tool Pluto, dislike Pkg, love the simplicity of matrix operations, dislike being pushed towards the REPL...) - I am increasingly irked by the observation that in topics like this the Julia community comes out in force to downvote anyone who expresses a negative opinion.