Has there been any response to "Why I no longer recommend Julia" [1]. It has made me hesitate to dive into this language.
I think it's safe to say that Julia has a notable ability to polarize people -- you tend to either love it or hate it. Personally, I can hardly even imagine using anything else at this point.
I think this is not true, many of us (including myself) were really intrigued by Julia and really wanted to like it, but came away a bit underwhelmed.
It certainly has some neat ideas and people do very interesting stuff with it. That said it is certainly not the panacea of "write code which is as easy as python but gets you the speed of C".
What is causing the current (small) backlash is the community being so strongly fanboyish and are still selling this uncritical view. Compared Julia fans, Rust proponents sound like they hate their language.
The advocacy is becoming quite off putting.
Try to fight against dispatch and squeeze Julia into OO or functional or etc. paradigms and you're Gonna Have a Bad Time, in my opinion.
So if you avoid mutable vectors and OffsetArrays you should generally be fine.
As far as the argument "Julia is really buggy so it's unusable", I think this can be made for any language - e.g. rand is not random enough, Java's binary search algorithm had an overflow, etc. The fixed issues have tests added so they won't happen again. Maybe copying the test suites from libraries in other languages would have caught these issues earlier, but a new system will have more bugs than a mature system so some amount of bugginess is unavoidable.