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A lot of great progress is happening in PackageCompiler.jl (large binaries, very useable) and StaticCompiler.jl (small binaries, still immature). I'd argue tha
by eigenspace 7y ago
A lot of great progress is happening in PackageCompiler.jl (large binaries, very useable) and StaticCompiler.jl (small binaries, still immature).
I'd argue that Julia is much closer to having a good static compilation story than Swift or Nim are to having vibrant scientific ecosystems.
> Plus it's easier to package binaries than scripts which usually require Docker to deal with dependencies in a sane way.
Julia does have a really good story for reproducible dependency management. We learned a lot of valuable lessons by looking at Python's dumpsterfire.