Are you aware of github pulse/insight? The following links give an immediate daily/halfweekly/weekly… list of what is being (hotly) discussed at the moment. Most large changes have been covered there afaics. (And in my opinion this quite nicely solves the ‘keep-up-with-Julia-dev’ objective.)
[Edit: updated link, didn’t jump to the correct location before (despite trying out :-()]
- Pulse · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub
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- Pulse · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub (weekly is the default)
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