There's a fascinating thread about centralized efforts on the Julia Discourse that highlights some of the deep contradictions at the heart of all the modern OSS communities I've worked with: discourse.julialang.org/t/how-can-we-c… Many of these contradictions start with the puzzling fact that open source communities, despite their intensely and aggressively egalitarian rhetoric, exhibit extreme inequalities in the contributions being made and/or being welcomed by self-reported members of the community.

This post is pretty bizarre, but it manages to hit on so many false beliefs that I've seen hurt junior data scientists that it deserves some explicit corrections:
nanx.me/blog/post/why-… (1) The notion that R is well-suited to "building web applications" seems totally out of left field. I don't feel like most R loyalists think this is a good idea, but it's worth calling out that no normal company will be glad you wrote your entire web app in R.