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> it means that Swift and Clojure are just as useless as Julia for numerous use cases where start-up times matter This is not true for Julia, you can simply pr

> it means that Swift and Clojure are just as useless as Julia for numerous use cases where start-up times matter This is not true for Julia, you can simply precompile the code: https://medium.com/@sdanisch/compiling-julia-binaries-ddd6d4e0caf4 https://medium.com/@sdanisch/compiling-julia-binaries-ddd6d4... Julia's default model is that script functions are only JIT compiled when run (just like the JVM, etc.), but you can just as easily force the compile and stick it in an image.

dnautics 7y ago
> you can just as easily force the compiler Have you actually tried the instructions in there? I did, to get a better time for julia in the n-body programming languages shootout https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/performance/nbody.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... (I am the current leader among julia implementations). Suffice it to say, it did not work. I mean i'm not a brilliant programmer or anything, but I would hardly say it's "just as easily".
- bocklund 7y ago
  I am a Julia noob and managed to use PackageCompiler.jl for a package I wrote and it just worked out of the box. I think the only non-stdlib package I used was StaticArrays, but I was able to use the happy path described in the PackageCompiler docs and got it working in an hour or so max. This was probably in March or April, so relatively recent.
  - dnautics 7y ago
    As you might be able to see I ran it on 25 Jun 2019 I didn't have any non-stdlib packages at all!! I'll give it another shot.