The information is around, just not very prominently any more. http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
The community has grown quite large since then: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/graphs/contributors There are PDF and ePub versions of the documentation available - see the little popup at the bottom-right corner of the screen. Regarding errors, there are still several open issues about error messages and backtraces, but the situation has steadily improved and there are further improvements in the works (via LLVM3.5, the debugger, etc.) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:37 PM, ivo welch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was trying to figure out who is running julia and the website, and > noticed that there is no "about us" that gives information on who the julia > people are. (it says on the front page that julia is mostly under the MIT > license.) would it make sense for someone to add this information? > > I wanted to suggest to the julia foundation, if such a thing exists, to > post the documentation on kindle for $9.99. the library, reader, and > auto-update feature makes this useful for some readers, esp those who want > to donate a little to the foundation. > > I am hoping that julia will soon mature to the point where I do not have > to inflict R on my students. (I am more bothered by R's obscure errors and > lack of simplicity than by its slow speed. It's not easy for students even > to figure out on which lines their problem occurred. without R mailing > lists, kind souls, and search engines, R would have died long ago.) > > /iaw > >
