List of most desired features for Julia v1.x

[StefanKarpinski]

Why type instability?

If Julia enforced type stability, it would be a statically typed language. This would not be a minor change to the language – it would literally be the single most fundamental change to the language that can possibly be made. Perhaps that’s what you want, but I suspect not. Decades of empirical evidence indicate that numerical and scientific users just love to work in dynamic languages – Matlab, R, Python, Mathematica, SciLab, etc. The appetite to work in static languages is considerably more li…