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Also, you can precompile a whole package and just ship the binary. We do this all of the time. https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl And getting things precompiled: https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/
How well does this work? I've seen this library but never used it. Julia is really slow from a cold start, which limits its utility for scripting. About a year ago I was very off-put by someone on Reddit who sort of scolded me for wanting to use Julia as a general-purpose scripting language at the CLI. The Redditor said this wasn't as idiomatic usage of Julia. Idk how representative this is of the community at large.
It's not "idiomatic usage of Julia". What the hell? It's literally given by the language developers as first class as the package manager and put on the website right next to it.