Why is Julia so outdated?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 12:07, Thomas Ruedas wrote:
>
> As the Julia programming language has recently received some attention,
> I thought of giving it a try and wanted to install it from Macports.
> However, the Macports version (0.6.2) is outdated by some 2 years; the
> current version according to the Julia homepage is v.1.1.1, with newer
> releases apparently already on the horizon. Is there a reason why Julia
> is not being kept up to date?

See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/56956

Mojca