Either someone wants to use Julia, and there are a few things that they don’t like. OK, if that case let’s talk about how to make Julia better.
Or, someone does not want to use Julia (e.g. because they don’t like dynamic languages and want static typing and IDE support to go with that). In that case a perfectly reasonable question is: what do you wish to accomplish by telling us that you don’t like Julia because it is Julia?
This “taking offense because I don’t like the post” is getting ridiculous.
@PetrKryslUCSD: These brusque replies and banter here is not productive (at best) and can easily be seen as unwelcoming. Please take note of @DOT’s user page.
Dot has left – way too intense this community.
One of the reasons I split this topic out so quickly was in an attempt to forestall such a thing.
Flags don’t represent dislikes or even necessarily offense. They represent a post that has the appearance of rudeness or breaking community norms, even if that wasn’t the intent (or a post that’s simply off-topic).
I’m very saddened to see @DOT go. In my view, Julia is making great strides towards better static behaviors and it’s not unreasonable to have asks of more static linting and analysis as well.