Hello everyone, Please take this thread in good faith coming from someone who wants to see the language and community flourish, but believes that there are certain frustrating barriers preventing us from doing so. I often find that whenever Julia is mentioned on Hacker News, that the responses tha…

[image] ronubi: I can’t easily give someone a Julia program to run, and it’s not trivial to get a working environment set up. I don’t see how this could be a big problem. It is trivial to give someone a package to execute whatever program they desire, and the package manager makes it a breeze…

Let me give some of the major reasons people complain about Julia and possible ways to solve them. Perceived Problem 1: There are little to no questions on Julia’ s stackoverflow tag, so if you have an issue, you’ll have a hard time to solve it. Solution: The new users don’t know Julia is curr…

[image] uje: Problem 1: There are little to no questions on Julia’ s stackoverflow tag, If you by “little to no” mean “thousands”, then you are definitely right.

This is somewhat derailing the thread so apologies for doing so, but on the StackOverflow point: I know many in the community actively dislike SO, and it’s certainly not a great place to have many of the in-depth “how can I speed up inference in this Turing PDE model 1000x” discussion happening on h…

(Perhaps OT, yes, but I’ve never understood what’s so bad about SO, especially the Julia tag.)

[image] uje: Let me give some of the major reasons people complain about Julia and possible ways to solve them. By “them”, I am not sure whether you were referring to the problems or those people who where complaining… I’d say that your argument in Problem 2 doesn’t quite stand. Intensive d…

You’re using Julia and I believe you want it grow big. So when you see such problems like the great ones you’ve highlighted. Think of a possible solution to circumvent it. If you don’t have a solution to a problem, then I feel its a “problem” to you as well, you understand? For example, the langua…

Well, recognizing the problems is certainly the first step towards solving them. [image] uje: Think of a possible solution to circumvent it. If you don’t have a solution to a problem, then I feel its a “problem” to you as well, you understand? I am not quite sure I follow you here… I guess …

You’re not a mere user. It took you more than a second to install Julia on your local machine, so you’re part of the statistics when downloads is counted. Please in your own small way provide solutions to any problems you encounter, so it can be solved. And when you don’t have such a solution, ask …

We as a community should be more understanding of Julia's flaws

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Nathan_Boyer August 25, 2022, 1:18pm 51

Do you have a guide on how to do that? Because I have been trying unsuccessfully for months. Environments and package version management are not trivial to me. They are a big problem.

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