[yurivish]

I'm the author of the original post. I still like and miss my friends in the Julia community, but the technical and cultural issues persist.

I may refresh the post with more recent information at some point. In the meantime, those curious can find a short story of one newer correctness bug here: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-it-reliable-to-use-...

The person who eventually fixed the issue, mkitti, had to push through a lot of "institutional" friction to do so, and the eventual fix is the result of his determined efforts.

While his part of the story mostly played out in venues outside of the Discourse forum some of it is on display in this thread: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/csv-jl-findmax-and-argmax-...

[postflopclarity]

while I certainly agree that bug was a bit frustrating, in all that

* it happened in the first place

* it took so long to get noticed

* it took so long to merge the fix after being reported

I do feel like I should push back on the term "institutional friction." it was more of a bus factor problem; there were not enough (aka zero) maintainer eyeballs on the proposed fix. but there wasn't exactly anybody saying not to fix it, which is what I think of as friction.