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It hit 1.0 about a month ago. Its always been a pretty exciting language, but it was hard to seriously use it without stability for an ecosystem to build around.

*one language to rule them all as far as numerical/scientific programming and at some point data analysis.

It is a general purpose language, but I don't think it is that much better than python in the scripting space (probably less good for now).

I think a lot of people had prepared articles, packages etc for the 1.0 release - and now they're slowly getting released ;) If you're a Julia developer, the release definitely motivates you to put in the extra work and try to release your material around the same time!

This may be an example of the frequency illusion, or Baader-Meinhof effect, which I've only recently become aware of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...

The vast Julia PR machine is certainly earning its million dollar bonuses this month...

(But you're right, of course; with a stable release out, people are now able to use and promote the language more effectively.)