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I should point out the main Julia package listing is at http://pkg.julialang.org/, this is the "executive summary" page. At the bottom of this "Pulse" page are test results - we run the tests for every package every night on both Julia stable (0.3) and unstable (0.4) to make sure everything is still working nicely together. Although, breakages on 0.4 just mean cool stuff is happening on master.

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You aren't kidding: Gadfly still takes 30 seconds to import on 0.3, but I hear there's some sort of binary caching in 0.4 that should fix it.

We should have static compilation in 0.4.

Of modules or entire programs?

I don't know exactly the current status or roadmap (if there is one), but the idea is to have both eventually. Packages and files will be cached automatically so that they load much more quickly, and it will be possible (eventually) to output standalone executables.

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