# \#gripes

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## [Criticism of Julia development experience](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/criticism-of-julia-development-experience/128634)

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**Author:** [@hack3rcon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hack3rcon)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 2, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/criticism-of-julia-development-experience/128634 "2025-05-02T21:02:58Z")

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Hello, I’m just learning Julia and I really like it, but I have a few criticisms: 1- Why are there so few books on learning this language and why has the development team focused all its attention on developing Julia? …

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## [Correctness bugs](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/correctness-bugs/122855)

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**Author:** [@Anil\_Kumar1](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Anil_Kumar1)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 29, 2024, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/correctness-bugs/122855 "2024-11-29T02:34:21Z")

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https://yuri.is/not-julia/ I saw this on Bluesky today. " In my experience, Julia and its packages have the highest rate of serious correctness bugs of any programming system I’ve used, and I started programming with V…

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## [Copy of postmortem for JuliaOptical](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/copy-of-postmortem-for-juliaoptical/57752)

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**Author:** [@jzr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jzr)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 23, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/copy-of-postmortem-for-juliaoptical/57752 "2021-03-23T18:25:12Z")

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I ran across a JPL optics engineer’s explanation of why he’s giving up on his JuliaOptical project. I know there was a discussion about posting lists of gripes, but I don’t remember where that ended up and Jeff said in h…

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## [Choice of Discord platform](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choice-of-discord-platform/43763)

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**Author:** [@non-Jedi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/non-Jedi)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [July 29, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/choice-of-discord-platform/43763 "2020-07-29T18:47:49Z")

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It really stinks that discord was chosen as the official discussion platform for juliacon. It leaves me completely unable to participate. They flagged my account immediately upon registration (before I even had a chance …

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## [List of most desired features for Julia v1.x](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-most-desired-features-for-julia-v1-x/4481)

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**Author:** [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)\
**Replies:** 179\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-most-desired-features-for-julia-v1-x/4481 "2017-11-17T20:42:54Z")

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In this thread I’d like to share my list of most desired features for Julia v1.x: The ability to manipulate types in a parametric type as discussed here (see also #18466) Interfaces or traits: #6975 Default field valu…