[$] New horizons for Julia

Julia, a free, general-purposeprogramming language aimed at science, engineering, and related arenas oftechnical computing, has steadily improved and widened its scope ofapplication since its initial publicrelease in2012. As part of its 1.11release from late 2024, Julia made several inroads into areasoutside of its traditional focus, provided its users with advances intooling, and has seen several improvements in performance and programmerconvenience. These recent developments in andaround Julia go a long way to answer several longstanding complaints fromboth new and experienced users. We last lookedin on the language one year ago,for its previous major release, Julia1.10.