Not only for technical computing: changing the narrative around the usecase for Julia

[Liso]

I propose to think about these clever words before doing blog post:

List of working packages on v. 1.0

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.…