> But the big dealbreaker with Julia is it only complies on the fly. That means you can't just hand a compiled executable to someone. You must give them instructions to install Julia and all your dependencies first. That's no good for anything you want to ship like a desktop app or a game. You also don't want Julia on your server recompiling with every web request.
That's an issue with Python as well, but the Julia team is working on that.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
And getting things precompiled: https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/
About a year ago I was very off-put by someone on Reddit who sort of scolded me for wanting to use Julia as a general-purpose scripting language at the CLI. The Redditor said this wasn't as idiomatic usage of Julia. Idk how representative this is of the community at large.
I never did get around to trying the daemon mode thing someone suggested. Someday I'll have a reason to do this again and try it.
It's not "idiomatic usage of Julia". What the hell? It's literally given by the language developers as first class as the package manager and put on the website right next to it.