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I'm not sure that's a fair characterization. Core team members have expressed serious interest in getting more static verification, interfaces and other type go

I'm not sure that's a fair characterization. Core team members have expressed serious interest in getting more static verification, interfaces and other type goodness into the language, but if you try to force the issue it turns into a Python 2->3 problem. Not to mention that there are few if any examples of how to fit type checking alongside multiple dispatch (e.g. C# punts with dynamic). I personally find static types indispensable when working with a large codebase, but to say people don't care about this in the Julia community is just not correct.

Certhas 6y ago
One thing is the Core Team Members and their long term plans, which I'm not privy to. The other is the impression generated by interacting with others in the community online, where people disagree with the very premise that there is a problem. I also see your point that not too much is known in this design space, but I also think that's why it would be good for the community to step up and experiment with this more. Figure out what works. I had plans to do that last summer but life intervened so I am stuck commentating from the sidelines. :P
- adgjlsfhk1 6y ago
  Note that if you ask on slack, you often will get answers from the core team members. They're pretty open. The main place where plans aren't the most clear is when there are features that everyone knows would be good, but aren't on the top of any of the the main people's to-do list. The JuliaLang repo has over 1000 people who have contributed, so a lot of the time, a new feature is just the result of a community member making a random PR. Stack trace improvements for example, started as a package, got ported to Base, and got improved by a bunch of people contributing to design decisions.