State of Julia | Valentin Churavy, Jameson Nash, Tim Holy | JuliaCon 2023

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Resources
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Contents
00:00 Introduction
01:02 Neuroscientist, cognitive scientist and physicist are doing work on Julia compiler
01:32 Part 1: Highlights of Julia. Interactivity
03:42 Speed
04:39 Expressivity
05:51 Onboarding newcomers
06:39 Can Julia became language of Computer Science 101?
07:08 Part 2: New futures. History of Julia releases
08:59 Latency and load times
14:32 Package extensions
17:38 Independence of Stdlibs from base Julia
19:00 JuliaSyntax.jl
21:00 REPL improvements
22:46 Other language highlights
23:34 Improved debugging & profiler tools
26:38 Stacktrace rendering
28:00 Static compilation
35:05 GPU ecosystem & accelerated computing
37:32 Threading
38:07 Garbage collection
39:00 Part 3: Ecosystem highlights
39:43 Parallel efficiency (ImplicitGlobalGrid.jl)
40:19 Black hole imaging (w/ Julia & Enzyme.jl)
42:03 Q&A: precompilation (time & profiling)
43:03 Q&A: When new LTS with all this cool features will be released?
44:03 Q&A: Documentation, testing & macro hygiene
46:00 Q&A: Independence of Stdlibs
46:50 Q&A: Can Julia debugger can be more user-friendly?
49:35 Q&A: Comment on Cormullion's art
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[@kevin.michaels]

Loving the updates to the Parser!!! Keep up the good work team!

[@fsaldan1]

Amazing work! Julia is unstoppable.

[@adityaprasad6743]

Exciting times! Thanks for all your work

[@zametal.]

nice talk! happy to be able to watch it on here!
good job y'all!

[@DanielPinyolLaserna]

great talk! Are the slides available?

[@jaylandge7517]

Great talk 🎉

[@balajilakshminarayan1593]

Time 40.55 was legendary

[@androth1502]

hard to imagine how these slow lumbering languages like python and julia become so popoular.

[@kamilziemian995]

Julia development keep amazing me.

[@nathanruben3372]

Improve the documentation, like python in include a full coverage tutorial as a part of documentation. Manual is too dry, to complex and very disorganised.

[@thegeniusfool]

ParenthesiS! With an ending S. Strange...