This is the key question. I will echo Jeff’s sentiment here. There is no ideal job out there where one can work only on julia. Even as researchers, some of us have spent considerable amounts of time writing grant proposals for funding, reports, and such. The language needs to mature significantly, so that the user base grows, and there are enough opportunities for support and consulting (not just for ourselves, but others as well) - which can fund core work. All our customers also want the same thing.
These are still very early days. We are clear about the need to keep the core development work separate from consulting. I believe that we will see development accelerating with Jeff graduating, and all of the core team working full time on Julia for the first time. -viral > On 11-May-2015, at 3:32 am, Tony Kelman <t...@kelman.net> wrote: > > I (and several others who I've spoken with in person) hope you're all able to > appropriately balance time spent towards the consulting work vs time spent > towards developing the core language, since those will inevitably not overlap > as often as everyone would like. The progress that the language can make > towards the many developments it needs depends strongly on how much time gets > spent working on it. > > > On Saturday, May 9, 2015 at 1:20:15 PM UTC-7, Viral Shah wrote: > Hello all, > > You may have seen today’s Hacker News story about Julia Computing: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9516298 > > As you all know, we are committed to Julia being high quality and open source. > > The existence of Julia Computing was discussed a year ago at JuliaCon 2014, > though we recognize that not everyone is aware. We set up Julia Computing to > assist those who asked for help building Julia applications and deploying > Julia in production. We want Julia to be widely adopted by the open source > community, for research in academia, and for production software in > companies. Julia Computing provides support, consulting, and training for > customers, in order to help them build and deploy Julia applications. > > We are committed to all the three organizations that focus on different users > and use cases of Julia: > > 1. The open source Julia project is housed at the NumFocus Foundation. > http://numfocus.org/projects/ > 2. Research on various aspects of Julia is anchored in Alan’s group at MIT. > http://www-math.mit.edu/~edelman/research.php > 3. Julia Computing works with customers who are building Julia applications. > http://www.juliacomputing.com/ > > Our customers make Julia Computing self-funded. We are grateful that they > have created full time opportunities for us to follow our passions. Open > source development will never cease. > > You may have questions. Please shoot them here. We will respond back with a > detailed blog post. > > -viral >
