Internals & Design

Internals Discussion about the internals of the Julia language. To reduce potential noise the creation of topics is limited to Trust-Level 2 e.g. Regulars, but everyone can see the discussions.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Internals & Design category Internals & Design	1	2782	November 16, 2016
Version-named manifests by default? Internals & Design manifest	10	346	July 7, 2025
State of currying-PR Internals & Design	18	2600	June 30, 2025
Should Julia use MLIR in the future? Internals & Design question	19	3519	June 28, 2025
Are modules intended to work as type parameters? Internals & Design parametric-types	2	158	June 27, 2025
Regression in 1.12.*? conflicting functions using libjulia Internals & Design	1	159	June 26, 2025
Method to unsafely close a mmap Internals & Design io , feature-request	1	198	June 16, 2025
Pre-release versions of packages Internals & Design question	22	2118	June 16, 2025
PR and running Julia test Internals & Design question	4	157	June 16, 2025
How is `Symbol` special? Internals & Design	8	181	June 14, 2025
Why is `Expr` mutable? Internals & Design	10	411	June 14, 2025
Ahead of Time Compilation in 1.11 Internals & Design question	7	1362	June 10, 2025
Documenting nested functions Internals & Design question , documentation , potential-bug , docstring	2	280	June 9, 2025
Default Real (Float) kind? Internals & Design float	50	841	June 7, 2025
Could introducing formal interfaces be nonbreaking? Internals & Design speculative	36	740	June 4, 2025
Destructuring syntax in julia 1.7 Internals & Design destructuring	66	9773	October 27, 2022
Better error message for modified structs in Julia >= 1.12 Internals & Design	5	342	May 23, 2025
Thought: Move GC to packages Internals & Design	4	512	May 22, 2025
How is data routed between distributed processes? Internals question , performance , distributed	0	103	May 17, 2025
Julia 2.0, new scope rules, and other breaking changes Internals & Design	4	526	May 17, 2025
Remove the soft scope altogether and make it global Internals & Design proposal , scope	49	4325	May 17, 2025
Why does runtime dispatch allocate when the return type is inferred? Internals & Design memory-allocation , runtime-dispatch	5	225	May 17, 2025
Datatypes SIMD by default? (as in Mojo) Internals & Design question , simd	14	1099	May 15, 2025
Lexical scope vs. Dynamic scope Internals & Design	28	2504	May 14, 2025
Calling convension, should Julia "preserve_none"? Internals & Design	3	191	May 11, 2025
Interfaces/traits in julia 2.0 and multiple inheritance Internals traits , interface	37	2730	May 7, 2025
Behavior changes with introduction of binding partitions Internals & Design	4	327	May 4, 2025
Juliaup: a modest suggestion Internals & Design	62	2574	May 4, 2025
Startup time of 1000 packages – 53% slower in Julia 1.12 vs 1.10 Internals & Design performance , ttfx , latency	50	3140	May 4, 2025
Redesigning String, optimising small strings and comparison Internals & Design strings	71	2562	May 3, 2025