They are pocketing millions of dollars, but stomp their foot on the community. They are only hiring 5 more people, despite getting millions and millions of dollars. The people behind this project are not good well intentioned people. The language itself is great, due to the thankless work of many contributors who never got paid. The people behind the language are selfish and they intentionally harmed some Julia language projects, such as Grassmann.jl by banning valuable contributors who had good intentions and spent thousands of hours of their time contributing to the community.
I just quit using Julia language and am switching to Wolfram language.
Well, I still might use Julia personally in the future, but my days of contributing to the community are over.
The julia community is thankless, and the people at Julia computing are mean spirited and they think it's acceptable to harm people having good intentions (like me), having contributed thousands of hours of free time to help people on their forum and releasing my own packages used by thousands of people.
Julia Computing just raised a bunch of money, but they are just pocketing it for themselves while they stomp their foot on people they perceive as unworthy.
Yea, it's a good language, but the people behind it are very selfish and harmful to the free software community.
yes, the number of students has to go down, very few people want to take these 400 person classes, these classes are only taken by people because some random department needs funding, so they require people to take classes they don't need.
I've been saying this for years, but academia is filled with stupid administrators who are incapable of evolving the state of teaching / learning because their salary depends on having administrative bloat.
I've been on the bivector discord since the beginning (aka chakravala), you can find my geometric algebra library Grassmann.jl
https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl
That's pretty much my stance, the universities are obsolete garbage. I did give them another shot and took as many math classes as possible, but they screwed up and drove me away.
I now do all my math research independent, as the universities are unable to facilitate my math research activity.
These deans need a taste of their own medicine, all university administrators need to be fired and we need to start over from scratch. I don't care who you are, all university administrators fired. Start completely from scratch.
I was a big fan of Julia for a long time, but when i realized that Stefan Krapinski and his Julia Stewards are a gang of assholes, it ended my interest in being involved.
They banned me from all their discussion websites and repositories after i questioned them about their "wokeness". I hate to use that term, but everyone's using that word now, so there.
Basically, they were trying to convince people that there are a lack of women using Julia because women feel uncomfortable for an unspecified reason. They were specifically unwilling to survey women about why they don't use Julia. Since they were unwilling to do a survey, i had to call them out for being delusional, as it is not even pseudoscience but straight up delusional to make claims like this with out any survey information at all.
After that, they said they would continue the discussion after banning me.
Since then, I have been unable to contribute to the Julia open source / free software. I'm a developer of several well known Julia packages, and I am not allowed to help other people solve their problems and fix issues with my code.
It's been over 6 months, and they extended my ban another 6 months. It's ridiculous, and I will never respect Stefan Krapinski and his gang of Julia Stewards again.
I think Julia is a good language, but with that kind of leadership, they are bound to destroy the language forever.
Wolfram language is actually a lot more inclusive towards me, and they are encouraging me to get involved due to my math research, while the Julia people are actively trying to discourage me and prevent me from doing work.
Rust is also a nice alternative to Julia.
Stefan Krapinski and his gang have written some kind of blackmail against me, they threatened me with spreading some kind of internet gossip about me if i don't stop complaining about them. Haha, as if they can blackmail me with their stupid gossip.
I recommend staying away from the toxic community created by the Julia Stewards, who are a gang of assholes led by Stefan Krapinski. The language is alright, but the people behind it are not respectable.
Stefan Krapinski is also responsible for introducing telemetry to the Julia language, so that's another reason not to use Julia.
https://github.com/chakravala/Grassmann.jl