Comment by oscardssmith

Short list of current priorities (in no particular order) Making it easier to interface with the compiler (this is step 1 on better ability to static compile/debug) Better garbage collection More performance Reducing the memory footprint of small strings Lowering the overhead of multithreading It's worth noting that Julia doesn't really have a core team. A lot of the development is done by a pretty large community of developers without any central management.