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you can do it but it's not great. there's no batteries-included standard argparse library and even with the new improvements, there is still some noticeable overhead of a few seconds for some scripts i've written.

You can see some previous discussion on this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35477695 . I feel 1.9 would make it much more realistic. For CLI you can use https://comonicon.org/stable/ .

I'm curious about this too. The latest 1.9 changes make it so that package precompilations are stored and reused, so the actual workflow will have to be to generate a package (which Julia has tools for), and have the script be just a tiny driver that calls into the package. With that workflow, what kind of latency can we expect? And how consistent would that be?

Same. I went down this road with GPT and was kinda disappointed TBH, since IIRC it recommended the language for the purpose.

I use ABS, Perl, PHP or Nim for most of that stuff but am always looking for new ones to try. (Preferably single binary these days since I have to migrate systems from time to time)