I’ve been using Julia since 2017 and still do on a day to day basis, and I agree with the author in a lot of cases, even his subjective naming conventions gripes.
The author’s biggest criticism is that Julia doesn’t have tooling to make the developer experience better. There’s Revise, JuliFormatter, LanguageServer and Jet, but the development experience in Python is enviable. There’s like 3 different REPLs, at least two competing linters and auto formatters. It’s okay to admit that these are places Julia is lacking.
I think your kind of response to criticism about Julia is what gives the Julia community a bad name, in my opinion. What is wrong with saying these things suck and need improvements? Would you rather Julia not improve and stay the way it is right now forever? Surely I hope not.
The author’s biggest criticism is that Julia doesn’t have tooling to make the developer experience better. There’s Revise, JuliFormatter, LanguageServer and Jet, but the development experience in Python is enviable. There’s like 3 different REPLs, at least two competing linters and auto formatters. It’s okay to admit that these are places Julia is lacking.
I think your kind of response to criticism about Julia is what gives the Julia community a bad name, in my opinion. What is wrong with saying these things suck and need improvements? Would you rather Julia not improve and stay the way it is right now forever? Surely I hope not.