[patagurbon]

These things are all much improved recently, but you are correct not there yet. ‘juliac’ is a new static compilation option which should release around 1.12, and there are others like Cognibotics experimenting with Julia for hard real time applications.

Julia was also recently used by WhatsApp for audio codec R&D. Hopefully these use cases will drive better guarantees and tooling.

[ChrisRackauckas]

There's also the new GC(s) that are almost ready to merge that have different properties that can be tuned.