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by nojonestownpls 1145 days ago
Your parent comment wrote "it's better", you said "it's getting better". This is a common Motte-and-bailey argument in Julia discussions:

The "it's better [now]" is most often given as a response to someone expressing a problem they've had, and in context it's presented in a way that suggests the problem is fixed.

"It's getting better" is a far more reasonable response, if it also comes with a caveat about how much better it's gotten and how usable for purpose it is. A lot of the time Julians seem to conflate between "it's a reliable usable feature" and "a pull request vaguely related has been merged and will be available some time in the future, which fixes maybe 10% of the issue".

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apologies if I caused confusion. (personally, I'm not sure where "pretty dejankified" falls on the getting better to better spectrum)
If you reread this comment thread under the guise of "hm how is the Julia community?". I think you'd find it very enlightening. Maybe even find things you could improve. If only that was the goal.