It's unfortunate the Julia community doesn't have enough resources to maintain their website.
The available version was 0.2 for ages (I see now they offer a pre-release 0.3), and the blog hasn't been updated for 9 months.
Some simple posts every month or so would signal that this is a live, worked-on, language (which it is, and interesting stuff happens all the time).
It was difficult to even find out about JuliaCon -- no banner, no blog post, nothing, just a small link in the main site navigation, that one can easily not notice.
To get a full sense of the level of activity, see here:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulse (and that is only the core - there is also considerable activity in the packages)
More frequent posts on the main blog would indeed be a good idea. There will certainly be a few GSoC student posts as the summer progresses.
As of a few days ago there is a also Julia blog aggregator highlighting community posts:
I believe we've had 0.3-pre nightlies posted since at least January.
As far as JuliaCon, it was announced on the mailing lists and did show up on HN once I believe. It sold out very quickly, so wasn't really actively promoted after that.
The available version was 0.2 for ages (I see now they offer a pre-release 0.3), and the blog hasn't been updated for 9 months.
Some simple posts every month or so would signal that this is a live, worked-on, language (which it is, and interesting stuff happens all the time).
It was difficult to even find out about JuliaCon -- no banner, no blog post, nothing, just a small link in the main site navigation, that one can easily not notice.