> I think there's a big differences between developing core features in packages and shipping them with the default version and having optional third party packages implementing core features.
Like what, exactly? If the complaint is about ease of installation of packages, then that's a known and acknowledged bug (set of bugs) that people are thinking about how to do a better job of. We could always use more help making things better. > The only thing I really would like to have > included by default it plotting tools, because they are so essential for a lot of things. I don't think you're going to find a single plotting tool that satisfies everyone, unfortunately. Not everyone likes grammar-of-graphics style plotting, or dependencies on Tk or IPython/Jupyter or OpenGL or a web browser to have a usable plotting package. Once we figure out the right way to bundle packages and make larger distribution versions of Julia we can include a few different choices.
