# Julia 1.9: great improvement

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-9-great-improvement/95758>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 8, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-9-great-improvement/95758 "2023-03-08T19:03:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![prittjam](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/prittjam/32/21267_2.png) [@prittjam](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/prittjam)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-9-great-improvement/95758/1 "2023-03-08T19:03:16Z")

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I started using it today. The speed improvements and REPL.activate functionality have immensely improved my development experience. I’m sure it was hard work.

I think the last major missing piece is compiled debugging (infiltration is just not the same).