The problem is that posting anonymous bullshit is still effective to on some people. For example, there is someone who frequents Hacker News and likes to go aro

The problem is that posting anonymous bullshit is still effective to on some people. For example, there is someone who frequents Hacker News and likes to go around saying that features arising from Julia's type system don't "just work". He/she will post all of the time about how we are lying about all of our claims, how when we say it didn't take work it actually did, and how the features that come out are useless. The specific mention is about uncertainty propagation in our differential equation solver library. It happened automatically because of the type system. There's evidence of the thread where we found out, since a user notified us that it works: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/differentialequations-jl-and-measurements-jl/6350 https://discourse.julialang.org/t/differentialequations-jl-a... We have since been investigating the pharmacometric implications of this methodology and are seeing good promise in a paper that is coming out. But then of course someone will come along and say "Cython can do it too". Yes, every Turing complete language can do everything. The point is how a 0 line of code feature led to a new avenue of research, and Julia's dependent compilation process allowed this to be a very optimized implementation. Of course, this little to no effect solution is pretty cool and something to share! However, as stated in the resource of this HN thread, bullshit propagates fast, so this other person had already come to this thread to start ragging on this work long before I could get here (since we were at a pharmacometrics conference getting feedback from the FDA about the uncertainty propagation algorithm! Just to show its real, check the dates of ACoP 2018). So let me add a corollary to this principle: any sufficiently widespread work will have an anonymous disgruntled bullshitter that hates on it. I guess you're supposed to learn it's a compliment that someone runs around spending their time doing this to you. But hey... I wasn't going to respond anymore but the thread's focus was just way too perfect. See you next time mlthoughts2018: maybe the name will change soon to make it harder to bop the bullshit.