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by queuebert 1915 days ago
As an avid Rust and Julia user, I often use Rust even when it's harder because I know I'll never get stuck. And when it finally compiles I'll be rewarded by ludicrous speed.

Hell, even C has decent man pages for the standard library.

Although in Julia's defense (or is it?), they've changed the language a lot over the versions from 0.4 to 1.5, so maybe it's hard to keep docs up to date.

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The language has been pretty stable (no breaking changes) since 1.0. The bigger issue is that unlike many of the other newer programming languages (Go, Rust, Swift etc) Julia doesn't have a fortune 500 company sponsoring it, so there aren't any people who's job is documentation. It's all open-source. Hopefully this is fixable through Google Summer of Docs and/or the community sponsoring people to work on this.
What does Julia Computing do?
They do what they can, including things like [1] recently discussed here, but they're not exactly a Fortune-500 company yet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26425659