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I think Keno's comment above pretty much articulates my thoughts as well. I have met Yuri on several occasions and have been thrilled to see his contributions. I find the post constructive and it will certainly help make Julia better, and hope Yuri will be back at a later date.

Some of the issues linked are JuliaStats issues, and there's a lot happening to improve it, which should become more visible over the next few months. Example: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pushing-julia-statistics-d...

Julia really pushes on language and compiler design in ways many statically typed languages do not. There is real wok to be done at the frontiers, and also investment in tooling built on top of that. It is all happening. The package ecosystem takes time to mature - Julia has a deliberate release process, the key packages have adopted a more deliberate release process, but stuff out in the long tail naturally tends to move fast - as it should.