# Getting Oriented

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**Category:** Optimization (Mathematical)\
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 7:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/getting-oriented/56970 "2021-03-11T19:33:53Z")\
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See this post for some of the background on the JuliaOpt/JuMP-dev split:

> [@JuMP 0.21 is released](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jump-0-21-is-released/34808/8):
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> Despite the name, JuliaOpt has not, in practice, been the organization for “all optimization packages in Julia” for a number of years now. See [JuliaNLSolvers · GitHub](https://github.com/JuliaNLSolvers), [https://github.com/JuliaSmoothOptimizers](https://github.com/JuliaSmoothOptimizers), and [https://github.com/kul-forbes](https://github.com/kul-forbes) among others. Moving to jump-dev is also correcting this misleading impression. Discoverability is an important issue, and we would like to keep an up-to-date list of optimization-related packages in a highly visible place. The list is currently at [Packa…](http://www.juliaopt.org/packages/)

We point to other options on jump.dev:

> **[JuMP](https://jump.dev/#see-also)**
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> JuMP is a modeling language and supporting packages for mathematical optimization in Julia.

I will update the introduction for this category.

Here’s a JuMP NLP example: [https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/examples/mle/](https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/examples/mle/). Ipopt is an excellent solver for constrained (convex) nonlinear problems.

Edit: I updated the intro: [About the Optimization (Mathematical) category](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-the-optimization-mathematical-category/90)

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