This is not a crazy idea at all – it's just something that most dynamic languages are not in good shape to do. It's definitely something we want and that a fair amount of work has already gone into.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! > > > On 8 August 2014 10:44, Tobias Knopp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, >> >> There were various dicussions in julia-dev and julia-users. Searching for >> "standalone" should give you some answers. >> In short: Its on the roadmap, it is definately feasible, there is even >> work beeing done in one of Jeffs branches, but my guess is that this will >> not land in the next year in an official release. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tobi >> >> >> Am Freitag, 8. August 2014 10:11:22 UTC+2 schrieb Daniel Carrera: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> Here is a possibly crazy idea: Since Julia is already a compiled >>> language, how difficult would it be to have Julia produce an actual >>> stand-alone binary? >>> >>> I am not sure how useful this would be. It could be used to distribute >>> Julia programs without requiring users to install Julia, but I don't think >>> Julia is hard to install in the first place, so I don't know if that's very >>> important... It would also help for small Julia programs that you run >>> often, because you'd save the compile step. Again, I don't know how >>> critical this is. So I was just curious. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Daniel. >>> >> > > > -- > When an engineer says that something can't be done, it's a code phrase > that means it's not fun to do. >
