In another thread @mbauman said:
which, of course, triggered my inner excitement and I had to open this discussion.
At the time, this, the juliac
, is ready, the core Julia people together with us, the community, should, in my opinion, consider some points:
-
ready = should be NOT just ready for the enthusiasts but especially for new to Julia people, because those will be attracted most. The current Julia users are mostly from data science who are already quite happy with Julia as it is. But with
juliac
a whole new world is opened, which will attract many developers which are just new to Julia. They should experience a satisfying first Julia experience withjuliac
. -
releasing
juliac
should really be accompanied by some kind of larger marketing campaign. Orchestrated press articles, good professional Blogs at higher level sites and similar actions. -
Looking at the statistics at Some Julia growth/usage stats , Julia is doing well it seems (itâs difficult getting good numbers) . Setting up something better to measure Julias overall usage in the world would be a good thing BEFORE releasing
juliac
. Knowing about the impact ofjuliac
on this measurement would be of quite some value.
These are just my immediate thoughts when I read that a juliac
is in good progress.
What do you think? Whatâs the proper release strategy for juliac
? What do you think about a beta
period, where some of us heavily test out the new juliac
? Or perhaps I am just overreacting and juliac
should just be silently released into the world of Julia, for a more slowly organic growing? Of course a big marketing campaign can throw back and do harm instead of being of value.