seriously, this language isn't going anywhere. The developers have the wrong priorities.
Things they focus on:
- time series
- DSGE models
Things they should focus on:
- parallelization
- fast egen
- do file editor
But I have low hopes. The whole company is full of lemons. Did you for example know that inlist(y,x1,x2...) only supports checking for up to 10 arguments? How come all functions I use (hdfereg, binscatter, gtools, ftools, parallel,............) are written by users? What do the people do at Stata all day?