I think it's great that they went ahead and released a binary for people to try it out without having to compile from source.

Thanks! We do our best to make sure that people who want to get ahold of the latest Julia binaries are always able to. Our downloads page [0] always offers the latest stable builds, whereas the nightlies page [1] allows you to download binaries off of the tip of the `master` branch, which usually lag behind the github repository by only a couple of hours.

[0] https://julialang.org/downloads/ [1] https://julialang.org/downloads/nightlies.html