Why “julia” is being discussed
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Lul. No. Everytime one of these "look how amazing Julia pots comes up", myself and many others do what we can to protect other people from wasting their time or their money from…
by lalalanananana · Sep 5, 2026
> in no way unique or even exaggerated in Julia I wouldn't say this is true really. Julia does have some unique properties which cause these issues other languages just sidestep…
by ModernMech · Sep 5, 2026
Yeah, this is crazy. It's literally a cliché for most programming languages that it's never the compiler's fault. Granted a lot of the Julia bugs seem to be in the standard/…
by Intralexical · Sep 4, 2026
There is no equivalence here. The Julia bugs were real. They were reported, accepted, and fixed. The Python bugs you linked to are fake LLM slop, see my other comment right abov…
by Intralexical · Sep 4, 2026
Most (all?) aren't bugs by any stretch of the imagination, no. Let's go over the first 5. 1. random.choices(['a','b','c'], weights=[-1,5,1], k=10000) Negative weight on 'a' sile…
by Intralexical · Sep 4, 2026
One thing that I find extremely annoying when I occasionally read Julia code is the pervasive usage of Unicode. I explicitly forbid agents to use any anything other than ASCII f…
by drnick1 · Sep 4, 2026
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