> I personally found that Julia community is slightly hostile to feedback and negativity. May be it is just me but it has way too much hype-driven-positivity th

> I personally found that Julia community is slightly hostile to feedback and negativity. May be it is just me but it has way too much hype-driven-positivity that leads to delusion. Part of the problem, at least from what I observed here and in other dev communities, was that Julia had a large number of bad faith critics (probably larger than the number of active users, at the time) from about 0.2 to 0.5 or so. I'm talking about everyone who compared the runtime of hello world in the REPL, with start up time, to that of a compiled executable. There were piles and piles of fake benchmarks that did little more than compare BLAS bindings as though the differences were intrinsic to the language. Sure, the Julia community could have reacted better to such (and a few people did: BenchmarkTools.jl was an early win in this area), but few people do react that way in practice.