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by jakobnissen 1793 days ago
Agreed, but it's funny that criticism of Julia broadly falls into two categories:

1) Julia doesn't have X. X is critical for modern programming languages, and without X, we should not even entertain the idea that Julia may be usable

2) Julia's feature X is too unstable. It's like they tried to implement too many things in Julia 1.0, and developer time stretched thin. They should have just not implemented all this stuff!

I mean yes, we all would like a programming language that materializes with 1,000,000 developer hours already poured into it, great editor support out of the box, and which is somehow born with 10 years of usage. It's similar to wanting an employee who enters the work force with 10 years of industry experience. Nice, but it's not very realistic.