Hi everyone! Introduction For those who have not heard about JuliaPackageComparisons (which I will reference as JPC), I made a pre-announcement about it here in september 2023. Since then a lot has happened, but not enough to push the project to the point at which a full announcement is appropriate…

This is similar to CRAN’s taskviews for R, which has been chugging along for 20 years. It currently has five maintainers for the infrastructure that oversee the work of the many contributors to the 48 task areas, which cover about an average of 100 packages each. (There are currently about 25,000 R …

Thanks for setting up this resource @TheLateKronos . I contributed a couple of PR’s today to see what it’s like to work with the repo. It’s pretty easy, and I hope to find time to do that from time to time. I can also be part of reviewing PR’s and maintain the repo, if you want. Actually, I have b…

[image] technocrat: This is similar to CRAN’s taskviews This is a good observation. In Julia, many packages are owned by Github organizations. So having a list of those Github organizations will already get us a long way. I have an incomplete list here: Github Organizations · JuliaEcosystem…

Could it be something that in the meanwhile (or in near future) can be done by AI? Just to test, I asked JuliaHub AI “compare Julia packages for working with genome data”, and below see the report. I have little knowledge about the topic, just took something not included in JPC. Therefore also no i…

[image] technocrat: Am I right that your thought is to work through git pushes rather than pull requests? Not neccesarily, I have just done it “quick and dirty” while working solo and making a bunch of changes all over the place. PR’s are better, but if you end up as a contributor then I dont…

[image] tp2750: I can also be part of reviewing PR’s and maintain the repo, if you want. Lovely! I will review those soon, and give you write priviliges while I am at it. [image] tp2750: Actually, I have been maintaining a similar list here: GitHub - tp2750/JuliaEcosystem.jl My point …

[image] Eben60: Could it be something that in the meanwhile (or in near future) can be done by AI? I have asked similay stuff from ChatGPT before, and I found quite frequent halucinations, such as references to packages that do not exist at all. So I would say no: the risk of polluting good c…

[image] TheLateKronos: the risk of polluting good content with BS is just unacceptable I was not meaning adding AI-generated content to JPC, at least not without previous check. I just mean, AI can generate package comparizons of sufficient quality according to user specified profile. Halluci…

That is a fair point. Absolutely, AI could be used for some of the grunt-work here. I just feel like AI weitten content often is missing the “human touch”, and I feel like that is av important aspect of JPC. But yes, with some care it could be super-helpful

JuliaPackageComparisons is looking for a new maintainer

Community

technocrat July 14, 2025, 3:46am 6

Here is a gist of a GitHub API script and the 840 organizations it returns from the 3,262 unique user names in the Julia general registry

Topic		Replies	Views
[Pre-ANN] JuliaPackageComparisons Community	22	2107	September 28, 2023
How can we create a leaner ecosystem for Julia? Statistics package , proposal , time-series , machine-learning	100	10952	October 15, 2020
Fixing Package Fragmentation Community	70	6388	May 28, 2023
Post list of all registered packages Community question	19	3448	April 2, 2019
New website Announcements website	76	8058	August 10, 2019

JuliaPackageComparisons is looking for a new maintainer

Related topics