Announcing the release of Julia 1.0
The much anticipated 1.0 release of Julia is the culmination of nearly a decade of work to build a language for greedy programmers. JuliaCon 2018 celebrated the event with a reception where the community officially set the version to 1.0.0 together. The release was accompanied by a talk: A brief history and wild speculation about the future of Julia.
We want a language that’s open source, with a liberal license. We want the speed of C with the dynamism of Ruby. We want a language that’s homoiconic, with true macros like Lisp, but with obvious, familiar mathematical notation like Matlab. We want something as usable for general programming as Python, as easy for statistics as R, as natural for string processing as Perl, as powerful for linear algebra as Matlab, as good at gluing programs together as the shell. Something that is dirt simple to learn, yet keeps the most serious hackers happy. We want it interactive and we want it compiled.
A vibrant and thriving community has grown up around this language, with people from all around the world iteratively refining and shaping Julia in pursuit of that goal. Over 700 people have contributed to Julia itself and even more people have made thousands of amazing open source Julia packages. All told, we have built a language that is:
