The two forward looking slides in the State of Julia were as follows:
It seems hard to answer the question if there is a single plan for the entire community as a very distributed open source project. It does seem possible to ask specific entities, sometimes individuals, what are they planning in the near future.
- What is JuliaHub working on for Julia?
- What is the next step for Relational.ai with regard to Julia garbage collection?
- What is @tecosaur (Timothy) planning for the Paths JULEP?
Of the four “In the works” points above, what strikes me is that one of them is clearly not JuliaHub led. The garbage collection direction had been motiviated and led by Relational.ai over many years.
One of the first questions I had about Julia was how hard would it be for me to submit a pull request to the core language. The answer was about two months from starting to use the langauge to making a change. A fair number of pull requests still seem to be coming from “3rd parties”, so it seems hard to read all of their minds.
One way that I found to learn about direction and controversies in the language is by attending the Julia triage meetings. In the triage meetings, triaged pull requests are discussed. This is where I first learned about the Memory discussion. Perhaps it would be good for someone (or something) to take and publish notes of that meeting. I think it would quite illuminating to share what is being discussed there.
My overall sense is that the information is obtainable and that we certainly could use more volunteers like @Krastanov who gather information and summarize what is being discussed as a community.