Correctness bugs

[Anil_Kumar1]

https://yuri.is/not-julia/

I saw this on Bluesky today.

" In my experience, Julia and its packages have the highest rate of serious correctness bugs of any programming system I’ve used, and I started programming with Visual Basic 6 in the mid-2000s.

It might be useful to give some concrete examples.

Here are some correctness issues I filed:

• Sampling a probability density produces an incorrect result
• Sampling an array can produce biased results
• The product function can produce incorrect results for 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit integers
• Fitting a histogram to a Float64 array can produce incorrect results
• Base functions sum!, prod!, any!, and all! may silently return incorrect results"

[kristoffer.carlsson]

It seems all of them are closed (presumably fixed) except the last one. Good job Julia community!

[barucden]

Discussion on "Why I no longer recommend Julia" by Yuri Vishnevsky

Hey folks! There was a pretty good critical article written about Julia recently called “Why I no longer recommend Julia” by Yuri Vishnevsky There is an ongoing discussion about the article that has largely been constructive on Slack. Hoping to capture some of these thoughts here to provide actionable points for the community. Feel free to comment or continue streams of thought here about the article and what actions could be done next. Thanks and remember: this is meant to be a cordial and…

Please, not again

[JuhaNuutila]

It’s fascinating how people circulate the same posts and arguments for years.

Find any Linux-related discussion on the Internet and observe how many people are complaining about bugs or configuration problems that were fixed over 10 years ago. It only shows that they haven’t actually used the thing to see the progress.

[greatpet]

It has been discussed many times, though re-reading the blog reminds me that Elon Musk used to post more sensible stuff on Twitter.

[tomaklutfu]

I went ahead and looked at the blog post for opened issue links and vast majority of them finished/closed. A couple stays open pending some finish up work and a couple is pending for design decision(I think). A couple is real issue. Great work Julia community!

[Benny]

Let’s not be too hard on someone for missing an old discussion.
Also put quotes in quote blocks (leading > for formatting)

like this
and this

so people don’t mistake the blog’s text for your own. The " starting and ending a quote are easily missed, and the custom for quoting multiple paragraphs is to write a leading " for each paragraph.