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0 pointspostflopclarity1mo ago0 comments

the parent company is a consumer of Julia, and has no formal role in oversight or governance; they are of course invested in the success and performance of the language, but so are all other users!

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2ndorderthought1mo ago· 3 in thread

Seems kind of contradictory with the other comment which states that they decide what features are prioritized. I guess not because it could be an informal process.

It's interesting. I like the more opaque approach rust takes. Rust has its own issues but it seems less corporately motivated. Maybe that's why it has more corporations using it? You aren't going to end up with the core maintainers to the language rug pulling packages or language features to slow down competition who are also using the tool. I say competition because it looks like they are making money through consultancies and very broad applications of the niche language.

Weird stuff to have to think about. I just want to write code

postflopclarityOP1mo ago

> they decide what features are prioritized

this is not true; the other comment is wrong. there is no central body at all that "decides" what features are prioritized. features are simply worked on by whomever has the capacity, ability, and desire to do so.

many engineers at JuliaHub have all three of the capacity, ability, and desire to work on certain features because JuliaHub, in its capacity as a private business, pays them to do so. but with respect to Julia the programming language these are "just" third party contributions like any other.

2ndorderthought1mo ago

So when I was googling it I was seeing a few other corporate activities seemingly coming from the other major contributors of the language outside of Julia hub? It looks like pumas AI has a few of the same people as Julia hub. Or am I misunderstanding the situation?

From a quick Google search it looked kind of like a bunch of MIT staff/professors(?) are getting students to churn out code for a variety of business interests. Just doesn't seem right in the surface and does make me wonder about what other things happen knowing what I know about human behavior.

I am personally not interested that's for sure. Thanks for sharing your experiences though.

kelipso1mo ago

> I like the more opaque approach rust takes. Rust has its own issues but it seems less corporately motivated. Maybe that's why it has more corporations using it?

I don’t if these are contradictory exactly but it seems to come from a very cluttered space.

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