New Ways to Compile Julia | Bezanson, Baraldi | JuliaCon 2024

Its like building a house without a floor plan, the house is completed but the rooms and fittings are not in its proper place, now you are trying to tear down the building structures and trying to figure it out how to build again?

I always wanted to build binary from Julia ,too

Love to heard that is possible soon

🎉🎉🎉

I always wanted to build binary from Julia!

Good work.👏

But going by the talk, it seems tricky getting a reasonably sized executable for just a "Hello World".

That means for an early stage Julia user like me, a concise, stand alone executable is not going to happen soon as my Julia codes are built with lots of dependencies and multiple dispatch at many places.

I have been checking Julia since release. In my humble opinion, Julia has always been the best for writing simulations. You can get more performance in C but needs a lot of knowledge of the underlying machine. However, Julia never quite make it as a data analysis scripting language. Python is usually enough. And Python has lots of binding to numerous APIs. Python is everywhere. And Julia JIT approach doesn't provide any advantage and is less performant for short scripts. However, static compilation is a game changer. You don't need to compete with Python anymore, you can finally make a library and make a Python API. You can use Julia in Julia or any other language. If this comes to fruition Julia have a chance against Rust or Mojo. Julia is not perfect but GPU stuff is much better than those so far.

is there a link to how to use this tooling today?

So friggin awesome. Next step: get the code running on an embedded processor.

I think all the R books should be re-written to Julia.

Very cool. Which julia version will support this?

ANY considered bloatful.

I feel this will be huge. I've been running into several road blocks where the JIT/JAoT compilation model of julia won't work (e.g. a service for a raspberry pi) and being able to build a proper executable from a julia program would make it feasible again

Wow that's pretty cool really smart people!