After 25 days in alpha, we’re pleased to announce that Julia 0.7 is now in beta. As such, v0.7.0-beta binaries are now available for all of your favorite platforms: Linux (i686, x86-64), Windows (32-, 64-bit), FreeBSD (x86-64), and macOS. Get them while they’re hot at Download Julia in the “upcoming…

I faced a similar decision some time ago. I decided 0.7 had so much new stuff it would not make sense to develop for 0.6 anymore. At some points I’ve almost regretted it, because 0.7 has been a bit of a rocky ride, but now 0.7 is much tighter, and I’m really glad of my choice. I’ve not suffered so m…

Not to disregard the importance of compiler performance, but developing with Revise.jl typically means you have to restart less. The only issue is changing the layout of structs which AFAIU requires a restart, but is something that you do quite often when developing.

I completely agree, for me the hardest part was/is the lack of packages available for 0.7.

I often rely on ~5-10 packages, so I find it impossible to do stuff in 0.7. But I guess it’s still early on, so I’m basically waiting for more passing green lights for the 0.7 versions.

[image] yakir12: I often rely on ~5-10 packages, so I find it impossible to do stuff in 0.7 So do I, but I found that packages are very happy to accept PRs. Updating so that things run on v0.7 is mostly mechanical and easy to do.

I figured someone would suggest that… :no_mouth:

Given the dependencies between packages, perhaps a priority list for getting packages working with 0.7 would be good, so people with time to try to make PRs would know where to work most productively? Starting with “important” packages that have relatively few dependencies seems a logical place to s…

A good strategy is just to fix packages you are using (checking that eg master is not fixed already, in which case just ask for a tagged release). I find that many package maintainers have already started updating things for v0.7. The packages which are still WIP tend to be more complex ones.

[image] kristoffer.carlsson: The only issue is changing the layout of struct s which AFAIU requires a restart, but is something that you do quite often when developing. Will it be feasible to change that in the Julia 1.x timeframe? It’s the main thing I miss from the old reload and since relo…

This is what the beta is for: to get people to upgrade their packages :slight_smile:

Julia 0.7.0-beta is now available

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Julia 0.7.0-beta is now available

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