Nearly 300 students join an open course that applies data science, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling using the Julia language to study Covid-19. (more…)

The strongest legacy of Lisp in the Julia language is its metaprogramming support. Like Lisp, Julia represents its own code as a data structure of the language itself. Since code is represented by objects that can be created and manipulated from within th... (more…)

Julia has a type system. NASA could have used it to prevent a crash that had cost them $200 million dollars... (more…)

Member of the European Parliament Julia Reda has warned that efforts are underway to sabotage the Parliamentary process relating to the EU's plans for mandatory piracy filtering. The Pirate Party member says there's now just over a week to protest against... (more…)

Earlier today, several users started seeing issues installing packages. This post seeks to collect all the information related to this incident. Impact The issue caused installation of incorrect versions (latest master when a prior version was requested)... (more…)