Software Update: Julia 1.7.0

Julia is the name of a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical mathematics. It includes a powerful compiler, among other things, distributed parallel execution and an extensive library of mathematical functions. The core of Julia is released under the MIT license, while several libraries other licenses such as gpl, lgpl, and bsd. For more information, please refer to this page† A few days ago version 1.7 came out and the announcement of that release looks like this:

Julia 1.7 Highlights

• New RNG (reproducible RNG in tasks)
• New Threading Capabilities
• Package Manager
• Better path printing for standard libraries in errors
• Inference improvements
• libblastrampoline + MKL.jl
• Escaping newlines inside strings
• Multidimensional Array Literals
• Property Destructuring
• Support for Apple Silicon