What is Julia 0.7? How does it relate to 1.0?

[StefanKarpinski]

1.0 progress/status

I figured I’d write a post updating people with where we’re at on getting Julia 1.0-alpha ready. We’re several months overdue at this point, so people may be getting impatient. I know that I am and I feel confident that I speak for all Julia core devs – we can’t wait to get this release out the door. The major work item that’s holding things up at this point is a significant rewrite of the optimizer that @keno is working on. It’s already fairly far along, but still not done. Why is he rewriting…