# Why are missing values not ignored by default?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756
**Category:** Internals & Design
**Tags:** data, missing-values
**Created:** [November 26, 2023, 1:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756 "2023-11-26T01:45:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 225

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![adienes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/adienes/32/37459_2.png) [@adienes](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/adienes)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2023, 2:28am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756/225 "2023-11-30T02:28:09Z")

</div>

guys I use plenty of Julia, I’m not just some tourist from Python

I’m aware of the tools that Julia has to offer.

is it really so hard to believe that this use case is just not as ergonomic as it could be in Julia?

---

_[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-are-missing-values-not-ignored-by-default/106756)._