At present, in what aspects is Julia still relatively weak compared to other mainstream programming languages? Or to put it another way, what aspects should Julia strengthen in the future? --A Julian with a surge of love for Julia suddenly wants to perceive its strength in all aspects at the macro l…

Agree. These are not ideal examples, but I understand they are native Julia. If they are not, then please ignore them.

The dynamic at play here is that Julia is a small community, and Python/R absorbs people in their full-time jobs. If there is not a financial incentive or other incentives to increase and retain the number of maintainers, we will never quit this loop.

Again, your argument has nothing to do with the topic or thread. My point given the papers on the topic and the empirical information people have gathered in the past is that Julia is not weaker than other open source communities in this area. That doesn’t mean it’s good. It’s more of a statement of…

[image] ChrisRackauckas: I’d boil the missing things down to: Interfaces and enforceable static behavior Better memory management (i.e. escape analysis to hit the GC less, faster frees, and better manual management tooling) Better binaries. At least at this point, I think the “big 3” aren’t t…

[image] juliohm: DelaunayTriangulation.jl (Daniel VandenHeuvel was the only maintainer) We will probably pull this into SciML. I still need to take a deeper look and find some grants around the topic but it’s actually quite odd that some of Daniel’s packages weren’t in SciML, given how many S…

[image] CameronBieganek: what is the interfaces solution that most people seem to agree on? The things that seem pretty uncontroversial are: A static subset of Julia with which one can guarantee static behavior. The ability to enforce that some functions or modules are static. The ability t…

I do not have hard data concerning bus factor, so this is purely a “pathos” perspective: My impression is that Julia’s maintenance story is pretty decent, better than most open source projects. The thing is, “most” people are not ever using “most” open source projects. Instead, they are largely sti…

I have been playing around with a macro to declare where the interface has been implemented. @implements AbstractInterface begin struct MyType <: AbstractInterface # ... end # methods that implement interface end During normal runtime, @implements does nothing. It just passe…

One minor weakness that no-one has mentioned in this thread is GUI building frameworks. I don’t use this myself, but I expect that this would be important for some commercial users and commercial users seem to be underrepresented in the Julia user base.

[image] ChrisRackauckas: [image] mkitti: Do we want to do a Birds of a Feather meeting for Meshes.jl and PDEs at JuliaCon? Did anyone submit that? Good point, I forgot to submit it. @ChrisRackauckas , Your style is the solution. Though your team is not the maintainer of all packages in…

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