> > For this reason, while I am happy to talk about how nice Julia is, I > will not try to convince people to switch to it. IMO the people who are > potential switchers at this stage have already looked at Julia, and > evangelizing more aggressively could be counterproductive at this stage.
Big +1 to this. Raising awareness is fine, but at this stage we have a fairly healthy rate of organic growth. Overselling will at best just be annoying and at worst lead to people burning out and flaming us, when they maybe shouldn't have been using Julia yet in the first place. Also, in most open source communities the bug-fixers and question-answerers are a small fraction of the total users. If the userbase grows too quickly, without the infrastructure and non-technical processes in place to spread out the load, then it can lead to frustration for both end-users (who don't get timely responses) and active contributors (who have other things to do with their time). On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > Even outside stats, Julia is a moving target, with nontrivial changes in > syntax and semantics in the core language, and large changes in library > code. > > While this is natural (and beneficial) in a new language, one has to > have a preference for other benefits (eg the clarity and the design of > the language) to be an early adopter, so I can fully understand if > someone would rather wait for things to stabilize a bit more -- nothing > wrong or irrational about that. > > For this reason, while I am happy to talk about how nice Julia is, I > will not try to convince people to switch to it. IMO the people who are > potential switchers at this stage have already looked at Julia, and > evangelizing more aggressively could be counterproductive at this stage. > > Best, > > Tamas > > On Wed, Mar 04 2015, Iain Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Related to that, we haven't convinced anyone to move away from R for > > stats/data analysis, and I personally haven't tried. The tooling isn't as > > good yet, so I can't advocate for it in good faith to the average > person. I > > think John Myles White's POV on this is basically that you should use > Julia > > for stats at this stage only if you are willing to actually get your > hands > > quite dirty with fixing and improving packages, and I'd agree. >
