I am one of the more recent people to join Julia Computing, so that I am
now able to work full-time on Julia. It's been a great way to merge a
mutual hobby – of contributing to the open-source Julia project – with
day-to-day responsibilities.


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 10:55 AM Scott Jones <scott.paul.jo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Very good to know!  I assume Alan is staying on as an MIT professor,
> evangelizing Julia to bright young MIT students. ;-)
> What about Keno and Jameson?
> Digging around shows they are still students (which surprised me a bit...
> I’ve been very impressed with their comments and contributions).
> I’d hope that they would think that working full time on Julia at JC would
> be a great gig after they finish their pesky degrees...
>
> The more major contributors are working full-time at JC (or another
> Julia-centric company), the easier I think it is to “sell” using Julia is
> to my clients...
>
> -Scott
>
>
> On Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 10:35:41 AM UTC-4, Viral Shah wrote:
>
>> The co-founders include the three of us, Alan, Keno, and Deepak who is
>> helping develop the business. The team strength is closing in on 12. We
>> will be updating our website shortly with all this information. On the open
>> source part, we have reaffirmed our commitment here.
>>
>> As I said in my earlier email, we will also write a blog post addressing
>> all issues raised here. It seems that most of the questions have already
>> been raised, and some also discussed. We’ll put out a well articulated
>> response in the next few days, so that everything is clear and in one
>> place.
>>
>> -viral
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 13-May-2015, at 7:42 pm, Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes, it was clear that you were also a cofounder of Julia Computing,
>> what was not clear, just from your GitHub info, if you were actively
>> working for JC, or for MIT, or splitting your time between them.
>> > I do hope there’s enough funding so that you’ll be able to work full
>> time on the language.
>> > Besides Jeff, Viral, and yourself, who else is currently working full
>> or part-time for JC?  (just thinking about the initials... is this the
>> “Second Coming", at least for computer languages? ;-) )
>> > This isn’t meant to be overly nosy, however, it is important
>> information for people like me who are trying to convince their clients
>> that 1) any issues they have in Julia can be addressed, 2) Julia will be
>> around for the long haul, and 3) Julia will not suddenly split into an open
>> source version and a closed “enterprise” version that has all the good
>> stuff...  (it kind of seems that way with Aerospike, for example).
>> > I really do wish all of you all the best, and for a very long future
>> for Julia!
>>
>>

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