What Python Creator Guido van Rossum Thinks of Rust, Go, Julia, and TypeScript

[StatisticalMouse]

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I do the claim because I have observed many quite negative responses in Chinese Julia community and on Zhihu (a Chinese forum like quora), though things do become better now. This is quite different from what I see in the discourse here and Hacker News. It has quite some threshold for those people who only know R or Matlab or have limited CS knowledge, many people try, fail and finally give up, and complains on the forum. For example, people sometimes come across performance regression caused by closure, but have no idea what happen and then blindly optimize their program. This kinds of thing really need some deep understanding of Julia, but we really don’t have so many Julia experts there.

I think you said that there are a lot of people trying Julia, and somehow failing, and then complaining about that in Chinese forums. Was this about correct?

Of course I can’t know what actually happens in forums I’m not a member of, but it sounds they’re stressed that they didn’t get Julia as fast as they believed they would. The reality was harder than their expectation. I do get that. I have a lot of CS knowledge, many languages, many years. Julia is not trivial to learn if you want to learn it well.

Maybe attending more mainstream Julia forums would be a good idea for them? Google translate will probably produce good enough translations that communication is possible if English language is a problem.