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 exampl…

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

[image] Discussion on "Why I no longer recommend Julia" by Yuri Vishnevsky Community 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 arti…

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…

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

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!

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 paragraph…

[image] kristoffer.carlsson: It seems all of them are closed (presumably fixed) except the last one. Good job Julia community! Right (though that last one a bit of a tough one), also he reported more, e.g.: Incorrect results from floating-point division (`fl…

Most of them were already fixed when the post was published.

Correctness bugs

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barucden November 20, 2024, 3:30pm 3

Please, not again

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