Earlier this week I gave a presentation to London Julia on my experiences while revising my book on Julia to accommodate version 1.0. As I researched for the talk, it became clear to me that the presentation would not receive widespread approbation, speaking as I was to a set of believers. Howev…

[image] Liso: Is he free to say it? [image] Liso: Is it possible to say here something not optimistic without being accused for There is no censorship here, as far as I am aware. Personally, I am not criticizing anyone for stating their perception of the situation here. I’m just provid…

[image] kevbonham: This whole thread is people hearing and taking it seriously. Disagreeing with his outlook is not the same as dismissing his feelings. It can seem that way when people are digging into the reasons for those feelings, but they’re doing that to try to understand and fix. That can…

What I see in the OP (original post) is not only an opinion which could be quoted with what I met during my work does not strengthen my optimism about Julia because reasons 1,2,3 but I see a lot of hyperbole, opinions stated as facts and belittleing speach without need. Example quotes: This ha…

I am sorry to write once more to my original post (OP) Possibly all OP’s run out of steam when they deteriorate into a critique of an author’s literary style or his/her movitation. I do however feel an accusation of hyperbole in my OP is a little unfair, so, at risk of repetition list my principal…

Thank you for writing once again; please don’t be sorry! These further followups are quite helpful. I really hope you don’t feel overly badgered here — most of us are honestly trying to get to the bottom of your critiques and trying to figure out how to best address them.

[image] oheil: It is impressing how friendly all replies are […] Although I like spirit of your message (and I am glad you show me your motivation behind your first reply here) I have to say that I am not sure that all replies were friendly. I don’t want to dig into this deeper. Why I think …

Hello, please feel free to move this to its own thread. [image] StefanKarpinski: This may not be universally clear—although we certainly try to make it so—but Julia Computing is a for-profit commercial entity which is separate from the Julia project and is in no way obliged to run, manage or p…

I don’t know people’s backgrounds, but a lot of the issues discussed in length in this thread are very common in any open-source community. I understand a lot of people really only download and use whatever software they need, without dealing with the list-serve, Stackexchange, or any other line of …

Why not writing it like this at first? It is much clearer like that. And it is much less a wall of text and people will actually read it…

… and yes, there is some truth in what you write. I confess that my first reply (second post) does contain some toxic side effects which have been by purpose. I am sorry for that, it is sometimes better to just stay silent. On the other hand, I would say that the original post does trigger this.

The State of the Julia Ecosystem

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List of working packages on v. 1.0 New to Julia	71	7900	September 1, 2018
Couldn't be good to postpone 1.0? Internals & Design	44	5216	December 23, 2017
Julia v1.0-rc1 is now available Announcements release	60	6918	August 16, 2018
Lost in transition: the current state of the Julia ecosystem? General Usage	23	3233	August 24, 2017
Would slowing Julia's release cadence improve ecosystem quality? Community	98	6094	September 15, 2023

The State of the Julia Ecosystem

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