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Personally, I like the state now better than a couple years ago, where it was a struggle to get Cairo.jl working because it was interacting with users' systems in weird ways. It ad…

Yeah the recipes are Plots.jl's strength. We will need more time to get there, I've always felt that the statefulness you get from having interactivity gets in the way of easy comp…

I don't use it personally, but RCall.jl[1] is the main R interop package in Julia. You could call libraries that have no equivalent in Julia using that and write your own analyses …

I don't think we claim we are the only library that uses something like Observables, as you say there are others that do. VegaLite also uses a signal mechanism for interactivity, f…

It's in a different category I would say. For the users, ggplot is mostly about the grammar idea, how you assemble plots from data, geoms, etc. Makie is on a lower level, where you…

Improving the docs as a key point was one of my takeaways from MakieCon. It's pretty time-intensive to work on them as you can imagine, but I hope we'll be able to make the structu…

I have a reverse corollary of this, which is: As I do/use things that are useful/interesting despite of their papercuts, then if I don't do/use something because of perceived "pape…

I would like to improve the way I store and view my photo library. It consists of 15 years of RAW photos, about 2TB or so in size and growing. My current backup "strategy" is havin…

This is not only about things moving away from where they were, but also popup windows appearing above a thing you wanted to click on. You cannot always avoid that, so I think the …

What's kind of crazy is how the images tend to have similarities in small features that become very apparent when flipping back and forth between images, but which are not obvious …

That is fascinating. I thought that bells had one or a couple dominant / loud frequencies that would mostly determine pitch, and the rest would just mix in to change the timbre but…

I guess it's mostly academics who have unusual problems that demand custom solutions, but which are small enough so people can switch to a language their lab group is not using and…

It's definitely not objectively better. For normal workflows, the startup latency is a real hindrance, even if the community has collectively built norms around that which help a b…

I don't think it's frowned upon to compile, many people want this capability as well. If you had a program that could be proven to use no dynamic dispatch it would probably be feas…

I don't think it's just about whether it's hard to do, your syntax example looks short enough and one can memorize these two patterns relatively quickly. However, both patterns are…

That's true. However, I believe that many R programmers don't know when non-standard evaluation happens or what it is exactly. Functions with or without it cannot be told apart jus…

I've experienced it many times how intimidating it can be to ask about things in a new workplace that seem to be commonplace there. Especially in the US, where abbreviations are us…

This resonated with me. I refused to open an instagram account because I didn't want to think about what other people might like when taking photos.

And this is why it's hard for newcomers to switch to open access journals. Because they cannot easily afford not to have well known journals in their publication list when applying…

I'd actually say the opposite. In my experience, n-dimensional arrays for example are very useful for problems that don't have anything to do with linear algebra. And in Julia it's…

Because you believe that you can't get used to a different convention? It gets brought up a lot that for array offsets, zero based is more natural. In my experience, the amount of …

That's true. I am of course biased in talking mostly to people on the Julia Slack etc. who enjoy the language a lot and do interesting things with it. That's one of the reasons, th…

The comparison between different languages gets tiring when it focuses on making a black-and-white statement like "Julia is better" or "Python is better" and "x is never going to o…

I have created one of the recent competitors in this space [1], and I think it's not so bad, as long as the macros are reasonably simple to understand. If you look in the readme of…