Are there any companies using Julia at the moment? This isn’t a snarky comment - I’m genuinely interested in hearing who’s using them, as well as reading any associated blogs etc.
Our talks at JuliaCon have been on how to use Julia for systems programming (eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaQ7XuAR2yY ), which is not an obvious thing you would do.
We sponsored JuliaCon 2018/2019 and work with Julia Computing to fund improvements to Julia.
Let me know if you have any questions!
Additionally, a lot of use cases were discussed at the recent JuliaCon (and in years past): https://www.youtube.com/user/JuliaLanguage/videos
There is also now PackageCompiler that provides a nicer API without requiring you to build from source: https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
I've tried doing these algorithms in other languages (Swift, Rust, C, Python), all of them were getting in the way. Julia is really liberating, I feel like I can concentrate on the hard parts as opposed to fighting the language.
You hit the nail on the head. This is exactly what I do in many of my workflows. Fortunately, Julia is so good on its own that I don't have to do this very often. I can't wait until static compilation is done!