# List of most desired features for Julia v1.x

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-most-desired-features-for-julia-v1-x/4481
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** gripes, suggestions
**Created:** [June 27, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-most-desired-features-for-julia-v1-x/4481 "2017-06-27T03:27:19Z")
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### Author: ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-most-desired-features-for-julia-v1-x/4481/102 "2017-06-30T16:29:15Z")

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> [@Why type instability?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-type-instability/4013/15):
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> 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…

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