A few months back this article[0] was posted here (Why I no longer recommend Julia). Does anyone following the Julia community know if the situation is getting better?
Recent releases have had longer cycles with more thorough testing. Julia's CI has expanded. Static analysis is improving. The linter is improving. That all adds together to a more stable Julia with fewer bugs.
However, there has been made little progress on actually improving Julia's tests, or documenting abstract types, or on formalizing interfaces, nor have there been a big dedicated "fix bugs" push.
So yes: It's getting better, but slowly and not yet by leaps and bounds.
Don't get me wrong, I love multiple dispatch and Julia's composability + speed make it a no brainer for science/quant econ teams to adopt (and using it to train models on TPUs is a actually a sneaky way to save time + $), but they've lost the "culture" war and I can't see the entrenched masses here or elsewhere changing their minds on it. Not sure whether it's for job security sake or they got sick of all the "Julia is faster than/will replace X" evangelism or Plots loaded too slowly the one time they tried it years ago or a combination.
The discussion was further evidence of the reality that I'd already come to terms with; the lack of inroads in building a larger community and general ecosystem is partly because of a lack of focus on things like tooling, linting, documentation standards, etc and partly because of a weird amount of disdain for the language. I can help with the former, but I don't have the time or energy for the latter because it's actually a set of large, long-term marketing, organizational, and psychological problems to overcome. Maybe someday down the road I'll be back, but I've given it a shot for about 8-9 years now.
Which situation exactly? The linked article lacks a salient point, so there's really no way to know what you're referring to.
“My conclusion after using Julia for many years is that there are too many correctness and composability bugs throughout the ecosystem to justify using it in just about any context where correctness matters.”