[postflopclarity]

> they decide what features are prioritized

this is not true; the other comment is wrong. there is no central body at all that "decides" what features are prioritized. features are simply worked on by whomever has the capacity, ability, and desire to do so.

many engineers at JuliaHub have all three of the capacity, ability, and desire to work on certain features because JuliaHub, in its capacity as a private business, pays them to do so. but with respect to Julia the programming language these are "just" third party contributions like any other.

[2ndorderthought]

So when I was googling it I was seeing a few other corporate activities seemingly coming from the other major contributors of the language outside of Julia hub? It looks like pumas AI has a few of the same people as Julia hub. Or am I misunderstanding the situation?

From a quick Google search it looked kind of like a bunch of MIT staff/professors(?) are getting students to churn out code for a variety of business interests. Just doesn't seem right in the surface and does make me wonder about what other things happen knowing what I know about human behavior.

I am personally not interested that's for sure. Thanks for sharing your experiences though.