[cbkeller]

I don't see anything problematic in what Viral said here; I think it would be fair to say your initial take ("Julia has been the future of machine learning for 10 years and will stay as the future of machine learning for the next 10 years") is likely to be perceived as at least somewhat inflammatory, a defensive response is natural enough in that context.

[saghm]

Yeah, I fully expected based on the description of the twitter interaction to see something really terrible, and from actually looking at it, it seems pretty mild. If anything, it seems like they went out of their way to try to bait the Julia creator and he had a fairly reasonable response to it. I'm not sure what could be considered "inflammatory" about any that.

[CJefferson]

What part of the conversation justifies "If you truly believe that nobody will ever adopt anything new, we would all have been programming in Fortran or assembly!"? To me that is a stupid escalation -- noone was suggesting not to do new things, Python (the discussed AI alternative) is of course newer than Fortran and assembly for a start!

That just seemed like a bizarre overreaction to me.

[urschrei]

With the greatest respect, nothing about his comment is inflammatory in the least, and I say this as someone who is avowedly skeptical about the ability of the Julia creators to accept criticism.

[CJefferson]

It's nice to hear an independent viewpoint. To me it was "oh, so randomo on Twitter is coming in randomly and looking angry. Oh, it's not a randomo, it's to co-creator of Julia!".