> Yuri's criticism was not that Julia has correctness bugs as a language
Are you sure? Here are some issues from the post:
"Wrong if-else control flow" seems like a language issue? bug is still open [0]
"Wrong results since some copyto! methods don’t check for aliasing" seems like a bug in a core library. The bug, which is filed against Julia, not some third-party library, is still open [1]
"The product function can produce incorrect results for 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit integers" was a bug in a core library, which was fixed [2]
"Base functions sum!, prod!, any!, and all! may silently return incorrect results" seems like a bug in a core library and is still open [3]
"Off-by-one error in dayofquarter() in leap years" seems like a bug in a core library which was fixed [4]
"Pipeline with stdout=IOStream writes out of order" seems like a bug in a core library and is still open [5]
I've been deliberately conservative here and only posted the issues from Yuri's post that are in the JuliaLang/julia repository. The other issues are filed against JuliaStats/Distributions.jl, JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl, JuliaCollections/OrderedCollections.jl, and JuliaPhysics/Measurements.jl. Since I have not used Julia very much, I don't know whether these are commonly used libraries or obscure libraries nobody uses, but they seem pretty close to the core use-cases of the language. Maybe someone who uses the language a lot more can shed some light on this issue.
Some commenters seem exhausted by what they perceive as a continual stream of lies about these topics, which has left them less inclined to post about them.
[0]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39460
[2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39183
[3]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39385
[4]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/36543
[5]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36069
Are you sure? Here are some issues from the post:
"Wrong if-else control flow" seems like a language issue? bug is still open [0]
"Wrong results since some copyto! methods don’t check for aliasing" seems like a bug in a core library. The bug, which is filed against Julia, not some third-party library, is still open [1]
"The product function can produce incorrect results for 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit integers" was a bug in a core library, which was fixed [2]
"Base functions sum!, prod!, any!, and all! may silently return incorrect results" seems like a bug in a core library and is still open [3]
"Off-by-one error in dayofquarter() in leap years" seems like a bug in a core library which was fixed [4]
"Pipeline with stdout=IOStream writes out of order" seems like a bug in a core library and is still open [5]
I've been deliberately conservative here and only posted the issues from Yuri's post that are in the JuliaLang/julia repository. The other issues are filed against JuliaStats/Distributions.jl, JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl, JuliaCollections/OrderedCollections.jl, and JuliaPhysics/Measurements.jl. Since I have not used Julia very much, I don't know whether these are commonly used libraries or obscure libraries nobody uses, but they seem pretty close to the core use-cases of the language. Maybe someone who uses the language a lot more can shed some light on this issue.
Some commenters seem exhausted by what they perceive as a continual stream of lies about these topics, which has left them less inclined to post about them.
[0]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/41096
[1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39460
[2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39183
[3]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/39385
[4]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/36543
[5]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/36069