OTOH many other people would prefer to wait a bit until certain design decisions are hammered out in a satisfactory way. Stable & mature software usually happens after spending a lot of time using and developing unstable & immature software.
Incompatibilities are a pain, of course, but most packages do a fine job updating relatively quickly, and Compat.jl is a really nice solution -- you may find it useful. Best, Tamas On Thu, Jul 07 2016, Hisham Assi wrote: > I really like Julia (I am using it for my publications & thesis), but I > noticed that the versions are not really backward compatible. I am still ok > with that, but many other people are waiting for the mature, stable > version (1.0) to start using Julia. So, when Julia v1.0 will be released?
