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

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)