I thoroughly enjoy julia and there&#x27;s no other FLOSS to replace it, but a fair bit of that rant does still seem to stand (from my own experience).<p>Bugs are quite easy to come across and updating software feels more like a dice roll than a normal upgrade. Parallel computing in particular has been in a pre-alpha state for ages (which may be more of a documentation issue than an implementation one). Packages were previously very slow to load, though with pre-compilation this was partially fixed (~1 order of magnitude difference). I don&#x27;t write robust software in julia, so I don&#x27;t know how the error handling side has been evolving. The API inconsistencies have been getting fixed, but this typically results in broken packages until the compatibility package (Compat.jl) includes some workaround. The core code is difficult to get through and architectural-level documentation was absent last I checked.<p>Even with these development flaws it&#x27;s still by and large an enjoyable experience to use. It solves some hard problems and it makes my own work (mainly DSP&#x2F;ML) move a lot faster. I would recommend it, but as their versioning scheme indicates, there&#x27;s no 1.0 release yet.