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  1. …as good as 1-based indexing for mathematics and science. And firstly, nobody want to change it. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558
    comment by cormullion · 2015-11-15 · in Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
  2. There are definitely some scope issues with the distributed computing functionality, see e.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13649 for a general tracking issue (also, that is the 0.3 version of the manual).
    comment by idunning · 2015-11-15 · in Julia Computing Granted $600k by Moore Foundation
  3. That's great! Will be interesting to follow its support for multi-threading [1]. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13410
    comment by optimali · 2015-11-11 · in Bringing Julia from beta to 1.0 to support data-intensive, scientific computing
  4. …since the argument call semantics would most likely be inferred after tokenisation. [1]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/commit/28e7bd4536d06a9e13...
    comment by ninjin · 2015-10-20 · in Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript
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    Julia v0.4.0 Release Notes
    story by wbhart · 2015-10-10 · 0 comments
  6. The correct link is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/10709 April 1 was a good day in the lab!
    comment by acidflask · 2015-10-09 · in Julia 0.4 Release Announcement
  7. …in this release: The command line (REPL) now supports tab-completion of emoji characters. ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/107090 )
    comment by commentzorro · 2015-10-09 · in Julia 0.4 Release Announcement
  8. …from the Julia docs. [2] [1] http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/manual/metaprogrammin... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/src/flisp [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6113
    comment by jpfr · 2015-09-29 · in Nemo: computer algebra package for Julia
  9. …and have to fix it later. Some background, context and tentative plans for return type annotations: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1090 .
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2015-09-27 · in Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
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    Julia's Arraypocalypse Release
    story by ViralBShah · 2015-09-27 · 61 comments
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    Julia v0.4.0-rc1 Released
    story by boromi · 2015-09-09 · 0 comments
  12. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558 > There is a huge discussion about this on the mailing list; please see that. If 0 is mathematically "better", then why does the field of mathematics itself start indexes at 1? We have chosen 1…
    comment by Redoubts · 2015-09-09 · in R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R? (2014)
  13. …can't quite manage at this point. That would certainly be very cool (and useful too). See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9430 .
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2015-06-22 · in Skeleton WebAssembly target
  14. It is already possible to some degree: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9973 More robust support starts with package precompilation which is slated to go into 0.4 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11426
    comment by Lofkin · 2015-06-18 · in Escher – Build beautiful interactive Web UIs in Julia
  15. …about the word "type" here is just one out of a million online discussions that have taken place: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6113 It started with an argument over what a "dependent type" was. That said, type-as-interface and…
    comment by rtoal · 2015-06-03 · in Introduction to Concurrency
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    Julia issue #8839 closed
    story by noethers · 2015-05-16 · 22 comments
  17. …that v8 is using this algorithm, and Julia also now uses it thanks to work by Jacob Quinn https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/base/grisu
    comment by jwmerrill · 2015-05-14 · in SML and OCaml: Why was OCaml faster?
  18. …the article is misrepresenting what is happening here. Julia and JuliaBox are both MIT Licensed: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox/blob/master/LICENSE.md The only factual…
    comment by hurin · 2015-05-09 · in Julia founders commercialize language, create new startup
  19. Have you seen the recent (unmerged) GC work https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8699
    comment by hayd · 2014-12-30 · in Julia is awesome, but..
  20. …attest that it's non-trivial and changes that work on one machine may break things elsewhere. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia#required-build-tools-and-...
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-12-29 · in Julia is awesome, but..
  21. …ignore this issue, I don't know which other "new" languages we could look at for inspiration. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE [3]…
    comment by kibwen · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  22. I'm in a similar situation: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/7714 Can someone help me what would be the polite way to do? I really don't want to annoy anyone, but also wouldn't want my work to be only on my local branch ;)
    comment by jhasse · 2014-12-07 · in Ignoring pull requests discourages open-source contributions
  23. …value is missing. If you're interested in the details of how Nullable{T} works, you can start with http://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8152 and then read through Julia's compiler code to understand how immutables are represented in…
    comment by johnmyleswhite · 2014-11-30 · in What's wrong with statistics in Julia?
  24. I found some development discussion about the changes to missing values here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8423 I've yet to try out Julia, but seeing productive and intelligent discussion like this followed quickly by…
    comment by nkurz · 2014-11-29 · in What's wrong with statistics in Julia?
  25. The work can be found here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/threads . This is still pretty rough and experimental, however. It requires a patched LLVM to fix thread-local-storage support in MCJIT and the patch only works on Linux.…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-11-21 · in Julia Package Ecosystem Pulse
  26. …seems to be fixed now.[2] [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/n3LfteWJAd4/jag6... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2741
    comment by grayclhn · 2014-11-09 · in Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
  27. …that's going on. Incidentally I really got a kick out of the recent s/Uint/UInt/ rename ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8905 ). It took a day or so to propose and do it. To compare, java will probably never fix it's spelling…
    comment by srparish · 2014-11-08 · in Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
  28. Static compilation is not too far away: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8656 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8745 Being tied to LLVM is real, but we do have JavaCall.jl to call Java code. https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl
    comment by ViralBShah · 2014-11-08 · in Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
  29. The first two are both WIP. Threading is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/threads (although it hasn't been updated in a little while) and static compilation of modules is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8745
    comment by simonster · 2014-11-08 · in Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
  30. Incremental GC is in the works. Do see: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8699 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5227
    comment by ViralBShah · 2014-11-08 · in Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing
  31. …works but doesn't perform all that well. There is some work underway to make it generational ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8699 ). However, JSC (which uses LLVM for the FTL JIT) implements a moving generational GC with a…
    comment by simonster · 2014-11-06 · in Integrating with LLVM
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    Jeff Bezanson PhD – Issue #8839 – JuliaLang/julia
    story by leephillips · 2014-11-01 · 0 comments
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    "Content submitted to File Exchange may only be used with MathWorks products."
    story by tomrod · 2014-09-27 · 9 comments
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    Why min(NaN,x) is x in IEEE
    story by silentvoice · 2014-09-18 · 0 comments
  35. …himself.[1] He also presented this information as a talk at Juliacon back in June.[2] 1. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5355 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFxaK0ufL04
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-09-16 · in SIMD Vectorization in Julia
  36. …there will also be multithreading someday, although right now it's still a work in progress: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/threads
    comment by simonster · 2014-09-16 · in SIMD Vectorization in Julia
  37. It does, in the base library in fact: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/mmap.jl Here is the relevant documentation: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#memory-m...
    comment by ninjin · 2014-09-16 · in SIMD Vectorization in Julia
  38. Is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 the issue you are referring to? If so, not fixed. Not sure about the second part, but `workspace()` was added in 0.3 ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.3/NEWS.md ,…
    comment by idunning · 2014-08-23 · in Julia 0.3 released
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    Julia 0.3 Official Release
    story by yla92 · 2014-08-21 · 3 comments
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    Julia 0.3.0 Release
    story by schwarze_pest · 2014-08-20 · 0 comments
  41. Release notes here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0-rc1/NEWS.md
    comment by mthomas · 2014-07-14 · in Julia 0.3 Release Candidate 1
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    Julia 0.3 Release Candidate 1
    story by DocSavage · 2014-07-14 · 1 comment
  43. To get a full sense of the level of activity, see here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulse (and that is only the core - there is also considerable activity in the packages) More frequent posts on the main blog would indeed be a good…
    comment by ihnorton · 2014-07-01 · in My Experience at JuliaCon
  44. …If you need evidence of a civil, non-snarky, supportive community look no further than this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6829 A more typical issue interaction is this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6769 This is…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-05-22 · in R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R?
  45. …Julia to make its macros much more simple and sane, incorporating some of the concepts from PLOT. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6910
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-05-22 · in Talking with Mikel Evins about the Lisp-based Newton OS from Apple
  46. …is possible. There is a special "make source-dist" target which will grab everything you need (see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/DISTRIBUTING.... ). We are not distributing this bundle ourselves right now, but it's worth…
    comment by ihnorton · 2014-05-15 · in Neural networks and a dive into Julia
  47. …on ARM [1], but there's still a lot of work to be done. But it is certainly not impossible. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3134#issuecomment-...
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-05-15 · in Neural networks and a dive into Julia
  48. …and http://grollchristian.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/julia-inherit... and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4935
    comment by xioxox · 2014-05-01 · in Julia Impressions
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    The problems of method extension working with multiple dispatch
    story by micro2588 · 2014-03-17 · 0 comments
  50. …fulfill the requirements of an interface. But it looks like it's definitely on the roadmap [2]. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5#issuecomment-330... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4935#issuecomment-... [See…
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-02-23 · in Efficient Aggregates in Julia