Here is Keno's comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8810146 and the general HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8809422
On Monday, 29 December 2014 17:44:35 UTC+1, Keno Fischer wrote: > > I've written up some of my thoughts on the issues raised in this article > in the hacker news discussion, but to answer your question, there's still a > number of big items that need to be tackled by the core team. I do think it > might make some sense to have a docs/tests sprint just prior to the 0.4 > release (we had a doc sprint before the 0.1? release which I think was > pretty successful). > > There is also plenty of opportunity for tests and documentation for people > outside the core team. API design discussions can also happen even if > people don't know how to implement them - it's much easier to implement an > API that's already designed than to do both, designing the API and > implementing it. > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Christian Peel <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Dan Luu has a critique of Julia up at http://danluu.com/julialang/ >> (reddit thread at http://bit.ly/1wwgnks) >> Is the language feature-complete enough that there could be an entire >> point release that targeted some of the less-flashy things he mentioned? >> I.e. commented code, better testing, error handling, and just fixing >> bugs? If it's not there, is there any thoughts on when it would be? >> >> >
