# About the Yul category

**URL:** https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/about-the-yul-category/63
**Category:** Yul
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/about-the-yul-category/63 "2021-02-03T13:53:43Z")
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### Author: ![franzihei](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.soliditylang.org/franzihei/32/19_2.png) [@franzihei](https://forum.soliditylang.org/u/franzihei)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://forum.soliditylang.org/t/about-the-yul-category/63/1 "2021-02-03T13:53:43Z")

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Language design discussions about the future direction of [Yul](https://docs.soliditylang.org/en/latest/yul.html). Yul, previously also called JULIA or IULIA, is an intermediate language for Ethereum that can be compiled to bytecode for different backends.

ℹ Please add topics that concern the language design of Solidity to the **[Language Design category](http://forum.soliditylang.org/c/language-design/9)**.