| One of Julia's Achilles heels is standalone, ahead-of-time compilation. Technically this is already possible [1], [2], but there are quite a few limitations when doing this (e.g. "Hello world" is 150 MB [6]) and it's not an easy or natural process. The immature AoT capabilities are a huge pain to deal with when writing large code packages or even when trying to make command line applications. Things have to be recompiled each time the Julia runtime is shut down. The current strategy in the community to get around this seems to be "keep the REPL alive as long as possible" [3][4][5], but this isn't a viable option for all use cases. Until Julia has better AoT compilation support, it's going to be very difficult to develop large scale programs with it. Version 1.9 has better support for caching compiled code, but I really wish there were better options for AoT compiling small, static, standalone executables and libraries. [1]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/ [2]: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl [3]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-the-ion-command-line-f... [4]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-slow-execution-t... [5]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/extremely-slow-execution-t... [6]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Julia/comments/ytegfk/size_of_a_hel... |