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by snicker7 1912 days ago
On the package ecosystem side, 1.6 is required for JET.jl [0]. Despite being a dynamic language, the Julia compiler does a lot of static analysis (or "abstract interpretation" in Julia lingo). JET.jl exposes some of this to the user, opening a path for additional static analysis tools (or maybe even custom compilers).

[0]: https://github.com/aviatesk/JET.jl
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akdor1154 1911 days ago
Good gracious, thanks for this. If JET goes anywhere, then that+other goodies in 1.6 mean I will likely switch back from Python+mypy.
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celrod 1911 days ago
> or maybe even custom compilers

Like for autodiff or GPUs.

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