[npr11]

Really nice to see so many little useability improvements -- like easy temporary envs, syntax highlighting in dependency conflict errors, and more partially-applied functions -- as well as more significant language development on threading, stack allocations, and reducing latency.

[oscardssmith]

In a lot of ways, I feel like 1.0 was a backend LTS while 1.6 is more of a front end one. 1.0 had most of the basics nailed down, but it's taken a while for it to become as seemless as it now is.