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Couldn't agree more. What you said is a design flaw that the Julia community keeps denying. The Julia community also behaves defensively when it comes to perfor
by acmj 5y ago
Couldn't agree more. What you said is a design flaw that the Julia community keeps denying. The Julia community also behaves defensively when it comes to performance. They refuse to accept that Julia doesn't compete with C/Rust on many non-numeric tasks in the real world. In addition, the Julia community has its own circle, its own style to write code. They will trash your code even if it is efficient and logically correct. I once compared implementations in different languages and found Julia is slower than others. Several of them jumped at me, criticized my coding style and blamed me for their fault. But in the end they couldn't improve the performance. At the Julia discourse, I was alone in the argument. That was a really bad experience.
- dklend122 5y agoCan you please post a pointer to the thread in question?
- acmj 5y agoSorry, I would like to keep my online anonymity.
- eigenspace 5y agoIf you won't post a link publicly, could you at least contact the julia community stewards [1]? If there are community dynamics that are pushing people away, the stewards need to be told. For what it's worth, I've seen some nasty (though well meaning) pile-ons in the julia discourse, but for the most part it's a pretty nice place. I find though that the Zulip [2] and Slack communities are generally more friendly and relaxes places though. [1] https://julialang.org/community/stewards/ https://julialang.org/community/stewards/ [2] https://julialang.zulipchat.com/ https://julialang.zulipchat.com/