Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/958337/

The new year arrived bearing a new version of Julia, a general-purpose, open-source
programming language
with a focus on high-performance
scientific computing.
Some of Julia’s unusual features are Lisp-inspired
metaprogramming, the ability to examine compiled representations of code in
the REPL or in a “reactive
notebook“, an advanced type and dispatch system, and a sophisticated,
built-in package manager.
Version 1.10 brings big increases in
speed and developer convenience,
especially improvements in code precompilation and loading times. It also
features a new parser written in Julia.