Comparisons of Julia w/ other languages often say one disadvantage of Julia is that it has fewer 3rd party packages. I tend to disagree. Julia doesn’t need more packages, it needs better packages (w/ more functionality). For example, two recent posts about time-series ( here ) & ( here ) highlight the…

[image] Gunter_Faes: The user is using a package and the included functions are not stable and are not maintained properly → this will frustrate the user and he will stay in his old environment (e.g. R, Python or …) This is not a concern in practice, as Julia is more addictive than cocaine. O…

Fittest in my mind is the package with the highest quality and by that I do not necessarily mean code quality. Quality of the documentation and the interactions with (potential) users is much more important. The users will generally gravitate towards the package with the best docs and best discover…

Just a couple of comments on some thoughts so far. While I agree that creating a standard of any sort is likely to flop if it is a completely democratized effort, that shouldn’t mean there is no effort to collaborate. Others have already pointed out that projects started and steered by a single ind…

Related to the discoverability of packages, a search operation (perhaps with semantic capabilities) for Pkg would be useful. Something on the lines of: (~v1.x) pkg> search embeddings Search results: - Embeddings.jl (vX.Y.Z) https://github.com/JuliaText/Embeddings.jl Description: Function…

I have created a prototype for such a search function a long time ago before v1.0 was released, but my pull request to Pkg was never merged: https://github.com/JuliaLang/Pkg.jl/pull/156

Oh nice. The discussion is pretty insightful as well. That PR should be updated, search is a nice to have feature. I’ll look a bit into it.

REPL search for packages would be a great addition!

It can also have some kind of rating system for the packages based on, for example, GitHub stars, and test coverage and status. With this, the users can have an initial feeling about the package quality.

As someone who is fairly new to Julia (but a 120% convert), I made my first open source contribution ever by updating VML.jl . This taught me a great deal about software development, but also was not a smooth experience. It look months for my pull request to be merged, and we are currently waiting …

JuliaOpt has a website, but not specific mention. It even mentions that JuMP extensions should be discussed with the JuMP developers, but not who they are or how to contact them. This is good point that we have overlooked. We generally assume that people will post on the discourse sub-domain: Op…

How can we create a leaner ecosystem for Julia?

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