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by kovariance 260 days ago
Chris Rackauckas gave a thoughtful comment here:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gspuMS1hSQo&lc=UgybMqt_1cv76Q5aT...

Here, he mentions how ahead-of-time compilation may be an essential feature to allow Julia to integrate well with embedded systems.

AoT compilation has been a hot topic for quite a while since the lack of it (albeit partially supported in 1.12 with significant limitations) limits the ability to deploy Julia in many environments (embedded, serverless, browsers).