# Julia as a universal platform for statistical software development **URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-as-a-universal-platform-for-statistical-software-development/113017 **Category:** Community **Tags:** announcement **Created:** [April 16, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-as-a-universal-platform-for-statistical-software-development/113017 "2024-04-16T14:11:28Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 7

### Author: ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti) #### Post date: [April 17, 2024, 3:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-as-a-universal-platform-for-statistical-software-development/113017/7 "2024-04-17T03:45:46Z")

@Non-Contradiction does seem to quite busy as of late. Last commit there was nine months ago. Maybe @kdpsingh 's group might have an interest in continuing maintenance? Returning to the original topic, we did have to work through some issues with embedding Julia so there are still some rough points. That said, it was not incredibly difficult either. > [@How to embed Julia in interactive mode](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-embed-julia-in-interactive-mode/112264/1): > > Another in my continuing series of questions about how to embed Julia… @mkitti and @GunnarFarneback have been very helpful in the past. I am embedding Julia in another program and am trying to approximately simulate the REPL. To this end I would like to launch Julia in interactive mode. My understanding is that this would affect, for example, the behavior of [soft scoping](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/variables-and-scoping/#local-scope). However, when I launch it after passing the -i option, isinteractive() still returns false. Here’s my code, in Windows: #… --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-as-a-universal-platform-for-statistical-software-development/113017)._