After about 6 weeks of initial part-time development, I'm announcing the first release of the RobotOS.jl package, which enables essentially seamless integration of Julia code with ROS <http://wiki.ros.org> (Robot Operating System). At the core, it is mostly a wrapper for the rospy python library (many thanks to Steve Johnson for PyCall), but on top of that I added an automatic Julia type generation system so the back-end python details are completely hidden from the end-user.
https://github.com/phobon/RobotOS.jl I believe the robotics community is especially well suited to adopt Julia, as speed and natural mathematical expressiveness are both highly desirable features in whichever programming language is used. For about six months now, I've been doing all my research in Julia and it has been vastly more pleasurable than using either Matlab or Python. I am quite eager to continue development on the package with whatever community feedback I can get but hopefully it can already prove useful to anyone out there who has already thought of using the two systems together. Thanks, Josh Langsfeld Graduate Research Assistant Maryland Robotics Center - UMD
