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I mean, that's bad and scary, but you did mention that you were using a beta version of julia. Finding this sort of thing is exactly why the beta versions exist.

If the beta was stable and ready for production, it wouldn't be called beta...

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Oh, the problem is present in 1.6.2(current stable release) as well as v1.5.4(released March '21 available under old releases). I could not find any other 1.5+ version to try.

Yes, my apologies, it was pointed out to me below that I misread your post.

I think you missed the point where he said the bug was present in the stable release, too.

Oh I see I did misunderstand. Yes, that is unfortunate. I'd guess that since this made it into a stable release, it's likely a pretty tricky bug to encounter, since the failure is so spectacular.

I will say though that bugs appearing in stable releases of any software is a bad, but practically unavoidable thing. It sucks that this bites people, but it's not what I'd really call instability.

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