When I last looked at Julia (as a candidate for writing a bioinfo. tool) it seemed a really appealing alternative to prototyping first in Python and then Cython

When I last looked at Julia (as a candidate for writing a bioinfo. tool) it seemed a really appealing alternative to prototyping first in Python and then Cythonizing to gain speed, in that code would only have to be written once and no stitching together would be required. Ultimately, I decided against using it because it seemed packaging of binaries wasn't quite there yet (e.g., one would have to download Julia and then download my code to run it). Is this something that's likely to be addressed in 0.4? Was my understanding of the situation accurate?