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The way Dan Luu's post is used on HN resembles a thought terminating cliche.

• loeg 9y ago
  Dan is thorough, and I trust him to make a good faith effort to understand things. If you'd like to refute the arguments and not the messenger, I would love to learn more.
  • shele 9y ago
    I specifically argue that posting something a long the lines of > Anytime someone brings up Julia, I think of Dan Luu's review of the language: https://danluu.com/julialang/ https://danluu.com/julialang/ if someone mentions Julia is not a helpful "message".
  • simonbyrne 9y ago
    The post is quite old: while the technical arguments certainly had merit at the time, they have largely been addressed (the exception is probably error handling, but his complaint there is more subjective, and I still don't think any language really has a good answer for that one). As to the community, I'm not exactly sure what happened with Dan (he only has a handful of posts on GitHub and mailing lists, so it seems to have been largely in private emails), but my experience could not have been more different: even from the early days they have been very friendly and helpful. (disclaimer: I now work for Julia Computing)