IDL 9.0 released

posted Thu 30 Nov 2023 by Michael Galloy under IDL, News

IDL 9.0 was released recently^[1]. Some notable new features:

Apple Silicon Mac support — most of my IDL use is from a terminal window on my Mac to a Linux, but occasionally I do some IDL development directly on my Mac. The improved speed is probably not a factor for me, but it is good to know NV5 is still going to support MacOS.
HttpRequest class — I have some routines that I use to make requests, but this should be a nice addition to the standard library.
IDL Extension for VS Code — I wrote about this already, but I missed the IDL native notebooks (not Jupyter notebooks). This looks very interesting, enough to install VSCode for a while to test them out.

There are a few more features, as well as updates and library updates. Details in What’s New in IDL 9.0.

I learned about it today the “Redefining Image Analysis with ENVI 6.0, IDL 9.0, and the ENVI Ecosystem” webinar, but maybe it’s been out for awhile? ??

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Sergiy says:
March 4th, 2024 at 7:59 pm
Will there ever be GPU support in IDL?
Michael Galloy says:
March 4th, 2024 at 9:01 pm
I would say it is doubtful.

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