Re-posted from: https://white.ucc.asn.au/2018/06/01/Julia-Favourite-New-Things.html
If I were more musically talented I would be writing a song
♫ Arguments that are destructured, and operator characters combine-ed; Loop binding changes and convert redefine-ed… ♫
no none of that, please stop.
Technically speaking these are a few of my Favourite Things that are in julia 0.7-alpha.
But since since 1.0 is going to be 0.7 with deprecations removed,
We can look at it as a 1.0 list.
Many people are getting excited about big changes like
Pkg3,
named tuples,
field access overloading,
lazy broadcasting,
or the parallel task runtime (which isn’t in 0.7 alpha, but I am hopeful for 1.0)
I am excited about them too, but I think they’re going to get all the attention they need.
(If not then they deserve a post of their own each, not going to try and squeeze them into this one.)
Here are some of the smaller changes I am excited about.
These are excepts from 0.7-alpha NEWS.md
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