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KenoFischer | 2 years ago

Congratulations on the launch! I think it's always a great thing to have people who know what they're doing put a new design out there. Raises the bar for everyone. For example, I think the Rust folks' work on error messages has really raised the bar on what is expected of systems is that regard. Sometimes people working on older systems feel a bit uncomfortable they see the bar being raised on them (it's weird to me to think of Julia as on "older" system, but I guess being around for more than a decade counts), but I actually prefer to think about it in the opposite way. There are lots of forces in systems design that push production systems towards conservatism. "We now have a million users, is it really worth spending the time/effort/risk on this new experimental parser/optimizer/feature, etc?", but if the rest of the world raises the bar, it's a great incentive to keep up and make all our systems better. So I very sincerely wish you the best of luck here and that in the areas where there might end up being overlap between Julia and Mojo people will start complaining to us that we need to be better, because we might just take them up on it ;).

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