# What don't you like about Julia for "serious work"?

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**Created:** [February 4, 2021, 5:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-dont-you-like-about-julia-for-serious-work/54591 "2021-02-04T05:49:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-dont-you-like-about-julia-for-serious-work/54591/184 "2023-11-26T02:34:16Z")

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> [@mpeters2](#):
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> a culture of terrible documentation. The recent randn() discussion was a good example.

That “culture” led to ~~a PR~~ [two](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/52252) [PRs](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/52260) to improve the `randn` documentation within hours of the complaint being raised …

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