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

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**Created:** [August 19, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/we-as-a-community-should-be-more-understanding-of-julias-flaws/86030 "2022-08-19T17:42:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/we-as-a-community-should-be-more-understanding-of-julias-flaws/86030/67 "2022-08-30T23:22:53Z")

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> [@gbellomia](#):
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> if the aggressive marketing keeps relying on the “both easy and performant” adage.

For what it’s worth, in my recent [post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/thoughts-on-jax-vs-julia/86463) comparing JAX and Julia the first thing I say is that both are advanced tools.

The difficulty of mastery, and frustration new users can face compared to more forgiving languages, is a large part of why I call Julia’s claims _mostly_ substantiated. 🙂

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