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tl;dr -- Julia is not that popular (yet!). A pretty good indictment of the language is that a "port-mortem" didn't mention any of Julia's technical limitations
by snicker7 6y ago
tl;dr -- Julia is not that popular (yet!).
A pretty good indictment of the language is that a "port-mortem" didn't mention any of Julia's technical limitations, but rather its popularity.
With regards to popularity, Julia has had a lot of adaptation over the last year. And once it can produce small-ish static binaries (.so/.dll), I think there would be a surge in popularity.
- dagw 6y agoAnd once it can produce small-ish static binaries That would be a real killer feature. If Julia could easily create small stand alone .exe files that I could just give to colleagues to run, that would be a seriously tempting feature.
- snicker7 6y agoThis is a promised feature (one that Viral Shah made recently). Julia already provides user-facing compiler hooks (see JET.jl for static Julia analysis). So it theoretically should be possible for someone to create an AOT compiler today. Not sure what the current limitations are.
- oscardssmith 6y agoCheck out StaticCompiler.jl. it's very beta, but it works (at least for some small problems)