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100% this. In a discussion on "cultural correctness issues prevents me from using Julia", it's very telling that the response is "more speed!" There's been a d

100% this. In a discussion on "cultural correctness issues prevents me from using Julia", it's very telling that the response is "more speed!" There's been a decent number of posts based around "Julia has these problems". And I don't think that's because the world at large has a vendetta; I think it's because the world at large desperately wants to use Julia, but struggle with hard blocks that are currently preventing adoption. FWIW I do think there's a growing acceptance in the Julia community that these concerns are real, which is good. (See the parallel discussion on the Julia Discourse.)

ChrisRackauckas 4y ago
Two of the mentioned packages, Lux and Enzyme, have increased correctness and decreased API surface... and were not mentioned for speed (though a lot of things end up faster when it's easier to prove correctness in the compiler)... so the response wasn't "more speed" but "here's correctness with resulting speed"...
- btilly 4y ago
  Actually Enzyme was mentioned for speed, not correctness. To verify, go back and see that you wrote, Pretty much everything is switching to Enzyme which improves performance quite a bit over Zygote... You didn't mention speed on Lux, but it is a rewrite. The rule is that a rewrite should be assumed to be buggy until proven otherwise. A culture of having everything permanently under construction comes with upsides and downsides. And unless you have good testing, correctness problems is one of the downsides.