Nice to hear about the progress. I did read up somewhere that AOT is already possible for GPUs. But I actually like the "just-in-time AOT" for development. For

Nice to hear about the progress. I did read up somewhere that AOT is already possible for GPUs. But I actually like the "just-in-time AOT" for development. For deployment a real AOT would be nice (but for the short term can be even something like precompiled blob with embedded runtime). It would be huge if Julia could be compiled to shared objects with e.g. C interface. I don't even care if they are bloaty or hacky. Any way of accomplishing this would be an instant boost for using Julia in production. And would go beyond anything even close to Julia's productivity. I think Julia people may underestimate the potential Julia has as a general purpose language, and overestimate the short term efforts to make it happen. Just add some hacks like AOT caching and any way to call with CFFI and it would go like wildfire. I understand that most of Julia's community is about crunching data, and that's what I do most of the time too. But with that background it's probably not that clear how dire the situation in more general development is. An expressive, reasonably performant and interoperable language would be revolutionary.