Not really looking to engage in this thread, but thought some authoritative statements were needed to correct incorrect information:
- The cost of Julia infrastructure exceeds 100k €/year by a factor of ~2-4 depending on what and how you count.
- JuliaHub does not significantly subsidize infrastructure cost, maybe $10k-20k a year amortized (but does of course pay salaries of people who work on Julia at a scale quite a bit larger than that and also sponsors JuliaCon, which may flow back into infra).
- Most of the subsidization of infrastructure cost is in form of in-kind sponsorship by Amazon (~ $120k/year), Fastly and CloudFlare, plus hardware at MIT and JuliaHub.
- JuliaHub does not really care about this data. It’s primarily useful for the project and associated academics to request funding support from industry and governments in order to demonstrate impact. There was a time when JuliaHub also did this kind of work, but at this point that’s not really part of the business anymore. It also helps to know what packages are popular so we know how much to prioritize a package when things break.
I know it’s the Internet, but it’s really strange to have the people who love one of the things you’ve poured your life’s work into think of the other as some kind of evil boogeyman. In particular the character impugnment is both unnecessary and to my mind in significant bad faith. As i said, I don’t have too much interest in further engaging here - too much actual work to do, but I felt that it needed to be said.