There is no rebuttal because nothing much has really changed culture wise. Sure, the various @inbounds issues and concrete bugs that are mentioned in Yuris post have mostly been addressed, but the larger point (that is, "what can I actually expect/get guaranteed when calling a given function?") definitely hasn't been, at least not culturally (there are parts of the ecosystem that are better at this, of course). Documentation of pre- and postconditions are still lackluster, PRs trying to establish that for functions in Base stall for unclear reasons/don't get followups and when you try to talk about that on Slack retorts boil down to "we're tired of hearing you complain about this" instead of trying to find a systemic solution to that problem. Until that changes, I have large doubts about Yuris post losing relevance.
My own efforts (shameless plug, https://github.com/Seelengrab/PropCheck.jl for property based testing inspired by Hedgehog and https://github.com/Seelengrab/RequiredInterfaces.jl for somewhat formalizing "what methods are needed to subtype an abstract type") are unused in the wider community as far as I can tell, in spite of people speaking highly of them when coming across them. I also don't think Kenos InterfaceSpecs.jl is the way forward either - I think there's quite a lot of design space left in the typesystem the language could do without reaching for z3 and other SAT/SMT solvers. I personally attribute the lack of progress on that front to the lack of coherent direction of the project at large (and specifically not to the failings of individuals - folks are always very busy with their lives outside of Julia development/other priorities). In spite of the fact that making this single area better could be a big boon with more traditional software engineers, which are very underrepresented in the community.
My own efforts (shameless plug, https://github.com/Seelengrab/PropCheck.jl for property based testing inspired by Hedgehog and https://github.com/Seelengrab/RequiredInterfaces.jl for somewhat formalizing "what methods are needed to subtype an abstract type") are unused in the wider community as far as I can tell, in spite of people speaking highly of them when coming across them. I also don't think Kenos InterfaceSpecs.jl is the way forward either - I think there's quite a lot of design space left in the typesystem the language could do without reaching for z3 and other SAT/SMT solvers. I personally attribute the lack of progress on that front to the lack of coherent direction of the project at large (and specifically not to the failings of individuals - folks are always very busy with their lives outside of Julia development/other priorities). In spite of the fact that making this single area better could be a big boon with more traditional software engineers, which are very underrepresented in the community.