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by __jem 1829 days ago
I really want to pick up Julia as my general purpose scripting language, but neither of those solutions meet the standard for “totally fine” imo. For reference, my current use case for Python is 95% scripting, 5% ad hoc exploratory data science.

I need a way to package and distribute scripts, so that they can run in a container for example. Running a server to execute scripts only works well for local workflows. PackageCompiler.jl has terrible ergonomics. I don’t think Julia is quite there for scripting yet, unless you’re already deeply invested into it for other reasons.