Since 0.7 (which was 1.0 with deprecations) In julia 0.6 and before it was exactly as bad as described. (though there were things like Playground.jl to kind of

Since 0.7 (which was 1.0 with deprecations) In julia 0.6 and before it was exactly as bad as described. (though there were things like Playground.jl to kind of work around it)