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  1. …a little deceiving — and we take those benchmarks very seriously! See this issue for more details: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/24097
    comment by 3JPLW · 2017-10-14 · in Some Insights from a Julia Developer
  2. …0.7 will essentially be identical to 1.0 otherwise). You can follow the 1.0-blocking issues here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/4 .
    comment by KenoFischer · 2017-08-11 · in Creating domain-specific languages in Julia using macros
  3. …but that may have changed. At this time, the 1.0 milestone hasn't been assigned a due date [0]. [0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/4
    comment by ellisv · 2017-06-20 · in Julia 0.6 is out
  4. …the copyright on those words. But what makes this really asinine is that Julia isn't even GPL: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md Moreover, since I've been seeing this kind of hostility towards the GPL more and more…
    comment by matt4077 · 2017-06-20 · in Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding
  5. …ps://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-vs-fortran-complaint... I implemented an erfinv function Julia ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/29874 ), and it was about 3x faster than Matlab or SciPy's erfinv function, both of which are…
    comment by ihnorton · 2017-06-20 · in Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding
  6. …when considering that Julia is only up to v0.6, and the language is still making breaking changes. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.6/NEWS.md
    comment by mr_overalls · 2017-06-20 · in Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding
  7. The list of BREAKING CHANGES still keeps me away from doing more in Julia right now. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.6/NEWS.md#...
    comment by baldfat · 2017-06-20 · in Julia 0.6 is out
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    Julia 0.6 is out
    story by ceyhunkazel · 2017-06-20 · 31 comments
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    Julia 0.6 tagged
    story by boromi · 2017-06-19 · 0 comments
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    Julia 0.6.0-rc2 new language features
    story by boromi · 2017-05-18 · 0 comments
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    Julia 0.6.0-rc1 new language features
    story by boromi · 2017-05-09 · 28 comments
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    Julia v0.6.0-rc1 tagged
    story by boromi · 2017-05-07 · 0 comments
  13. …to fake out class-based o.o. code in Julia in a way that will look right but work poorly. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1974
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2017-04-24 · in Computer scientist Viral Shah helped build Julia from Bengaluru, India
  14. …which is occasionally painful, but other than that it gave me all the tools I could possibly want. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/18632 The startup time is annoying, but I typically use Julia from Juno and I restart at most a…
    comment by jamii · 2017-03-15 · in Some fun with π in Julia
  15. …would be — that may end up simply testing the cleverness or resourcefulness of the expert. 1. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/64409a0cae8b52d3f795...
    comment by 3JPLW · 2017-03-14 · in Some fun with π in Julia
  16. …to be very difficult to comprehend for anyone who is not one of the original developers. [1] [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia.h
    comment by n00b101 · 2017-02-18 · in Show HN: Julia Observer – Package Browser for the Julia Language
  17. …FFTW). Compare this to, e.g., Python or R where much of the standard library is written in C. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/base
    comment by mauro3 · 2016-11-08 · in A Look at How Traders and Economists Are Using the Julia Programming Language
  18. > which we desperately want to get rid of Would that be covered by https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/18632 or is it a separate issue? I have some really ugly code that ought to be built out of nested generators, but I can't afford…
    comment by jamii · 2016-10-11 · in Julia 0.5 Highlights
  19. …through the "Activate LLVM 3.7" GitHub issue (which was originally started for version 3.5). https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9336
    comment by 3JPLW · 2016-10-11 · in Julia 0.5 Highlights
  20. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/sho...
    comment by simonbyrne · 2016-10-10 · in The Julia Programming Language for Number Crunching
  21. Optionally. OpenBLAS and LAPACK are the default. See here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia OpenBLAS — fast, open, and maintained basic linear algebra subprograms (BLAS) library, based on Kazushige Goto's famous GotoBLAS. LAPACK (>= 3.5)…
    comment by jpfr · 2016-10-10 · in The Julia Programming Language for Number Crunching
  22. …I'm yet to read the whole of that issue, maybe it'll end up convincing me it's a good idea.) [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16260
    comment by sundarurfriend · 2016-09-20 · in Julia v0.5.0 Released
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    Julia v0.5.0 Released
    story by dlss · 2016-09-20 · 19 comments
  24. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/18374#issuecomment... . Open-source Julia builds also need to support non-Intel processors and architectures, and operating systems where MKL isn't available. If you have a specific operation…
    comment by tavert · 2016-09-19 · in Julia 0.5 release
  25. A better link is: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.5/NEWS.md Better yet, wait for the official announcement once binaries are compiled and posted for download. I believe there will be a blog post to go along with it, too.
    comment by 3JPLW · 2016-09-19 · in Julia 0.5 release
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    Julia 0.5 release
    story by boromi · 2016-09-19 · 37 comments
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    Julia v0.5.0 is out
    story by ceyhunkazel · 2016-09-19 · 0 comments
  28. It already has! This comment -- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3721#issuecomment-...
    comment by 0xmohit · 2016-06-24 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
  29. Will this eventually solve the "Julia does not like Pizza" issue ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3721 )?
    comment by micro2588 · 2016-06-23 · in How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters
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    Support for 0-indexed and arbitrary-indexed arrays
    story by superbatfish · 2016-06-14 · 0 comments
  31. …a lexer. I don't see anything that Lisp offers you in that respect. I looked at how Julia does it: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/src/julia-par... Julia is actually bootstrapped in femtolisp. If you look at the lexer, it…
    comment by chubot · 2016-06-05 · in Disadvantages of purely functional programming
  32. I believe this is the PR in question: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16260
    comment by waldir · 2016-05-14 · in Giving up on Julia
  33. …people have suggested such things, e.g. They were neither ignored nor shouted down nor banned. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16357 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/16070 > Important improvements to the language go in…
    comment by KenoFischer · 2016-05-14 · in Giving up on Julia
  34. …in a lot of performance loss compared to loops? Yes, but it should be fixed in the nearish future. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16285
    comment by ced · 2016-05-13 · in Giving up on Julia
  35. Yeah and there is already an improvement to that: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/12541 . Well, anyways, I think you can easily find a lot of unsatisfactory constructs in any language, especially in young ones ;) If they outweigh…
    comment by simondanisch · 2016-04-20 · in A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
  36. …to "do the right thing" when exceptions occur..." Untyped, sometimes incorrect, exceptions, https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12485 and related.
    comment by SolarNet · 2016-04-20 · in A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
  37. …://github.com/Keno/Gallium.jl/commits/master https://github.com/Keno/ASTInterpreter.jl/commits/master https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15859 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/15444 - Revamp of closures to make anonymous…
    comment by ihnorton · 2016-04-20 · in A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
  38. I think this is slated to be fixed soon. Any reason why it can't be done? https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 Look at the commits at the bottom.
    comment by tanlermin · 2016-04-19 · in A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch
  39. A better compiler is a good thing, as long as its performance model can stay reasonably transparent. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8974
    comment by tavert · 2016-04-18 · in Why I am betting on Julia (2014)
  40. …then you can get rid of the dispatching code in contexts where the type is known in advance. [0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265
    comment by junke · 2016-04-18 · in Why I am betting on Julia (2014)
  41. Yea... I don't think so: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9430 http://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html
    comment by tanlermin · 2016-04-17 · in Why I am betting on Julia (2014)
  42. …most software packages are based) would be a better statement of the case for 1-based indexing. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558
    comment by kafkaesq · 2016-03-14 · in Julia: A Fast Language for Numerical Computing
  43. …you benchmarked against Julia? Would be interesting how Clasp compares in their micro perf tests: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/mic... http://scilua.org/ was added in the tests recently and does pretty well.
    comment by hayd · 2015-12-26 · in Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM
  44. …than the existing versions. (I'm not affiliated w/ the project, though, so I'm just guessing.) [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/arraymat...
    comment by grayclhn · 2015-12-16 · in How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
  45. Likely. There's some recent discussion at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6975#issuecomment-... regarding taking inspiration from Clojure's protocols. There are a few different Traits and Interfaces packages floating around…
    comment by tavert · 2015-12-16 · in How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
  46. …is to calculate fib(20) = 6765, which does not overflow. You can verify this for yourself at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/test/perf/mic...
    comment by thebooktocome · 2015-12-16 · in How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
  47. …using Arrays.sort, the much more idiomatic way in java. I even submitted a PR which went nowhere: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/14229 I then broke the code improvements into smaller PRs and am still waiting after 2 weeks for the…
    comment by RyanHamilton · 2015-12-16 · in How to Make Python Run as Fast as Julia
  48. Improvements to our LuaJIT benchmarking are currently being discussed in https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14222 . LuaJIT 2.1 is significantly faster than LuaJIT 2.0, but until now I haven't had a convenient way to get an…
    comment by acidflask · 2015-12-03 · in Federal Reserve Bank of NY converts major economic model to Julia
  49. …[2] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.27.... [3] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6113
    comment by jpfr · 2015-11-29 · in Why Julia's DataFrames Are Still Slow
  50. …may be getting in the way of tooling. One issue that would help a lot is return type declarations ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1090 ). Return types would dramatically ease creation of IDE plugins.
    comment by dangjc · 2015-11-16 · in Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation