Occasionally this forum experiences discussions which contribute little to the development or understanding of Julia (or any other programming language or meaningful human endavor for that matter), yet at the same time engage a lot of frequent contributors to this site. Of course people are free …

Anyone encountering this discussion: I expect that the following policy will solve this issue. [image] POLICY: feedback discussion splitting Meta Discussion We’re introducing a “feedback discussion splitting” policy on this forum. What this means is that while…

I wonder if it would be possible to run some analysis on the post before it appears in the thread and alert the OP to topics that have already been covered thoroughly in the forum? I know that something like this already appears on the right of the submission box, but if it was mining the text of th…

[image] StefanKarpinski: It will hopefully also cut down on some of the rehashing of well-trod topics by newcomers, which seems like a particularly problematic dynamic since newcomers may not realize that pointing out that it takes a long time to get to a plot from starting a fresh REPL is not a…

You have a more optimistic opinion of the state of the art of NLP than I do :grimacing:

[image] StefanKarpinski: institute a “feedback unbundling” policy Definitely worth trying. Let’s see what happens.

As a passive outsider I think it could be helpful to have a very visible ‘Julia Wishlist/Goals’ that people can +1. Outside of the Github, just very simple. Any forum poster can then be invited to create or vote on it, so they feel heard. Each one could then link to the github issues or a forum post…

Maybe having a “frequently reported gripes” locked and pinned topic with a frank and short discussion of what people frequently wished Julia had and what are the plans to address it (periodically updated) would go a long way towards defusing this kind of post, and would be very useful both to beginn…

[image] antoine-levitt: a frank and short discussion of what people frequently wished Julia had and what are the plans to address it While Julia is not perfect, at this stage it is mature enough that even discovering areas that should be improved requires some immersion into the language (and…

@mbauman , @StefanKarpinski : would it be possible to agree on convention to signal posts like this to the mods to experiment with unbundling? If that’s OK with you, I would suggest flagging it as “Something else”, then putting “unbundle” as the reason.

What you see as a particularity of the language that just needs the right frame of mind, a newcomer might see as a fatal design flaw in the language. There are a few common pain points (slow globals, loading times, etc) that are encountered very soon in the julia discovery process, and a common sour…

I may be cynical, but I don’t think we should make too much of an effort to cater to people who imagine that they identified a fatal flaw in a language that (1) they don’t really know, and (2) is otherwise widely used. Yes, they can be very vocal, but at the same time be safely ignored. From a prac…

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