Ouch! As a big Julia fan I cannot exactly complain about these criticism. They seem overall very fair. Although some things like tracking down problems I think

Ouch! As a big Julia fan I cannot exactly complain about these criticism. They seem overall very fair. Although some things like tracking down problems I think is affected a lot by what you are used to. I am way slower figuring out problems in Python than in Julia. But the heavily academic code and often poor user documentation for third party packages is a very real problem. I would like to point out that I think the Julia core libraries are better documented than Python. But third party stuff often has a long way to go. I also think Julia may suffer a bit from people writing a lot of CLEVER code. I am computer science guy who feel lost in the midst of all these brainy Julia PhDs, postdocs and researchers. I think maybe many of us more regular programmers have a bit healthier habits in writing code a little bit less clever and and perhaps more verbose. It is not all bad though. I think that the APIs to a lot of Julia libraries are quite well thought out. It is more the inside of a lot of these packages which can look a bit messy. Perhaps Julia code quality and documentation can improve when the language starts expanding more outside academia and more among general programmers, industry etc.