# List of working packages on v. 1.0

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-working-packages-on-v-1-0/13779
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [August 20, 2018, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-working-packages-on-v-1-0/13779 "2018-08-20T18:30:12Z")
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### Author: ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/list-of-working-packages-on-v-1-0/13779/52 "2018-08-25T08:06:55Z")

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> [@carstenbauer](#):
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> Despite the fact being open-source, Julia competes with solid software like Matlab and Co and users won’t really care about “why” Julia 1.0 isn’t yet what it, for sure, will be.

Just to adjust expectations: waiting an extra month or six would not have made Julia polished in the sense Matlab/R/Stata/… is. The package ecosystem will probably take years to develop mature libraries. In a lot of ways, 1.0 is the beginning of the journey, not the end; having a stable release should facilitate focusing on packages.

Many are already using Julia productively, and have been doing that for years. There is a price to pay in terms of convenience, but there are also great benefits. Those who expected a plug-in replacement for, say, Matlab, have somewhat unreasonable expectations about open source projects.

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