Julia 1.8 Highlights
After 3 betas and 4 release candidates, Julia version 1.8 has finally been released. We would like to thank all the contributors to this release and all the testers that helped with finding regressions and issues in the pre-releases. Without you, this release would not have been possible.
The full list of changes can be found in the NEWS file, but here we'll give a more in-depth overview of some of the release highlights.
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With Julia 1.8, for workloads with "predictable" types, you can often entirely eliminate type-inference as a source of latency.