Julia always was one of the languages I wondered whether I should have a closer look at (do python data-science stuff mostly, so it is an interesting project). However, reading Dan Luu writing about his experiences with members of the Julia community https://danluu.com/julialang/ I try my best to not get anywhere near it. Directly cited:

    Update: this post was edited a bit to remove a sentence about how friendly
    the Julia community is since that no longer seemed appropriate in light of
    recent private and semi-private communications from one of the co-creators
    of Julia. They were, by far, the nastiest and most dishonest responses I've
    ever gotten to any blog post. Some of those responses were on a private
    discussion channel; multiple people later talked to me about how shocked
    they were at the sheer meanness and dishonesty of the responses. Oh, and
    there's also the public mailing list. The responses there weren't in the
    same league, but even so, I didn't stick around long since I unsubscribed
    when one the Julia co-creators responded with something bad enough that it
    prompted someone else to to suggest sticking to the facts and avoiding
    attacks.  That wasn't the first attack, or even the first one to prompt
    someone to respond and ask that people stay on topic; it just happened to
    be the one that made me think that we weren't going to have a productive
    discussion. I extended an olive branch before leaving, but who knows what
    happened there?


    Update 2, 1 year later: The same person who previously attacked me in
    private is now posting heavily edited and misleading excerpts in an attempt
    to discredit this post. I'm not going to post the full content in part
    because it's extremely long, but mostly because it's a gross violation of
    that community's norms to post internal content publicly. If you know
    anyone in the RC community who was there for the discussion before the
    edits and you want the truth, ask your RC buddy for their take. If you
    don't know any RC folks, consider that my debate partner's behavior was so
    egregious that multiple people asked him to stop, and many more people
    messaged me privately to talk about how inappropriate his behavior was. If
    you compare that to what's been publicly dredged up, you can get an idea of
    both how representative the public excerpts are and of how honest the other
    person is being._