[$] New horizons for Julia

Julia, a free, general-purpose
programming language aimed at science, engineering, and related arenas of
technical computing, has steadily improved and widened its scope of
application since its initial public
release in 2012. As part of its 1.11 release from late 2024, Julia made several inroads into areas
outside of its traditional focus, provided its users with advances in
tooling, and has seen several improvements in performance and programmer
convenience.
These recent developments in and
around Julia go a long way to answer several longstanding complaints from
both new and experienced users. We last looked
in on the language one year ago,
for its previous major release, Julia 1.10.