[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!".