The post reads like a rant. As every software project out there Julia has bugs. So is it really necessary to complain about bugs of an open source project in a blog post?
Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2014 18:30:26 UTC+1 schrieb Tim Holy: > > In my personal opinion, his post is a mix of on-target and off-target. I > completely agree with the inadequacy of our testing, particularly in > packages. > However, it's also not entirely simple: julia is _so_ composable that it's > hard to come up with tests that cover everything. Until recently we've not > even had the ability to find out how much of Base is covered by tests, and > inlining makes even that a little bit tricky to determine. That said, the > situation is improving. At one point I put out a call to julia-users to > tackle > writing more tests (it doesn't take deep expertise to do so), but I don't > think that netted a lot of contributions. > > In terms of off-target, in particular I disagree pretty strongly with his > feeling that Base should catch lots of exceptions and try to recover. That > would make it basically impossible to deliver good performance, and it > also > (in my view) jeopardizes sensible behavior. > > --Tim > > On Monday, December 29, 2014 08:51:07 AM Valentin Churavy wrote: > > 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 <sanp...@gmail.com > > > > > > <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? > >
