Speculative questions will get very speculative answers :) My sense is that the rate of adoption and growth of the community has so far been just about ideal. Too much growth too soon can actually be a bad thing if the community and infrastructure can't absorb the growth (overwhelmed mailing lists that become toxic, PRs hanging too long, etc.), or if it leads to settling on sub-optimal situations due to opposition to breaking existing code.
how is the language being received in industry and education, it being > strong in academe already. Considering how often the "when will static compilation be ready" question is asked, the industry interest seems to be robust. Julia has already gotten various forms of sponsorship and code contributions from a number of companies. As far as education, one answer is this list of courses using Julia, which should see some healthy growth when we start hearing from courses this Fall: http://julialang.org/teaching/ Are there plans for a formal 1.0 release or will it continue to develop > incrementally? I can't speak authoritatively, but I don't believe there are any plans for this in the next year at least. Have there been rumors of panic at Matlab HQ or Wolfram Towers? Can't comment on that. On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. I was reading http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/: > > About two and a half years ago, we set out to create the language of >> our greed. It’s not complete, but it’s time for a 1.0 release... > > > and it's about two and a half years since then. (So, happy fifth birthday, > Julia? :) > > I'd be interested to read the opinions of Julia programmers and developers > as to how they judge the success of their creation so far. I've seen a > number of blog posts and watched the conference videos. I noticed the > growth in Julia users > <http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/08/four-main-languages-analytics-data-mining-data-science.html> > - > how is the language being received in industry and education, it being > strong in academe already. Are there plans for a formal 1.0 release or will > it continue to develop incrementally? Have there been rumors of panic at > Matlab HQ or Wolfram Towers? >
