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Right, It can currently precompile to some extent, but full source-to-binary-blob-compilation is on the roadmap. See here: http://juliacomputing.com/blog/2016/02/09/static-julia.html

Julia's runtime includes its compiler and full huge standard lib, but of which are eventually going to be split off, IIUC.

The former because of static compilation potential and the latter into modules that can be included piecemeal.

Here is an emerging julia alternative http://www.breloff.com/transformations/

Julia is a general purpose language

Actually, they said they would keep programming in python.

Will you continue maintenance on this indefinitely (barring orders from higher up) or is this meant for a one shot translate and dump?

Lead on the project said he would like to support python 3 at some point.

What python 3 features are painful and why?

Awesome!

I"m also curious about this

Have you thought about using type hints to help type inference?

Some work on that is discussed here. I would love a dropbox google colab (though also targeting 3.x :) )

https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/1862

What's wrong with Julia? 1.0 should be coming out in a bit less than a year.