As a long-time R user, I second that. Brian Ripley is a core contributor to base R, does reply on R-help to many requests, but is very acerbic. In general, there is quite a big divide between R core contributors and R users. This is totally absent in Julia, with the founders of the language very involved with the early adopters. It's a great asset to have for a new language. Just in recent times, I would say that the early adopters of Clojure were instrumental in the adoption of the language.
-gappy On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 6:50:12 PM UTC-5, ivo welch wrote: > > > my note was partly a joke, partly a warning. the R community started out > very nice, too. many still are. but some of the tone has shifted towards > the obnoxious. the weirdest part is that there are some people who seem > to enjoy *really* helping users, all the while being somewhat insulting. > it is my (incomplete) understanding that internal strife in the core > development team has become negative, too. it will be up to the julia core > team to set the community standard and watch themselves and the community > to keep it alive. > > this reminds me: for those of us who cannot contribute, is there a julia > foundation membership? it would not be a bad idea to have us using users > get used to contributing, too. > > > > >
