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Mike Innes gave a talk/demo of this at the Boston/Cambridge Julia meetup [1] last night and it was really impressive. Some highlights:

- interactive sliders to manipulate input parameters

- support for inline plots (like IJulia)

- very nice code completion

[1] http://www.meetup.com/julia-cajun/

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It was one of the more interesting meetups I've ever been to. There is a lot of interesting stuff going on with Julia right now.

For example, the pretty picture in the header of the Juno page is also a Julia project. Yuri Vishnevsky gave a lightning talk about his graphics demo at the same meetup last night. See [1] and [2] for more about that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aML8nQlaJ6E&noredirect=1

[2] https://github.com/yurivish/Julia-Playground

Yeah, it was exciting. The Julia ecosystem is growing quickly. A few months ago I could more-or-less keep up with all of the issues on most of the important packages, but doing so now feels impossible. A lot of new packages are still at the "it works for me" stage, but there is an amazing range of things in development and maturity will come with time.

Beyond the main LightTable presentation and the generative art you mentioned, there were also lightning talks on:

- calling JITed C++ from the Julia REPL with Clang [1].

- spectrograms, audio playback, and tone generation with interactive manipulation from IJulia [2].

- Kalman filters [3]

[1] https://github.com/Keno/Cxx.jl [2] https://github.com/ssfrr/AudioIO.jl [3] https://github.com/wkearn/Kalman.jl

Pity I didn't know about this, I live in Cambridge. Do you know if his talk was recorded?

Unfortunately not. There was a Mathematica-in-Julia-in-LightTable cameo which you might have found amusing. Maybe we can record in the future, but having everything be informal and low pressure gave it a really fun feeling.

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