This is more of a curiosity. Are most people using Julia to create scripts, in-house codes, and open source projects? Is there a significant group of people working with Julia for commercial software development? If so, how are those people getting around not being able to compile? Shipping source …

[image] Ribeiro: Shipping source code is obviously a no-go. This is not at all obvious to me. I think more context is needed.

[image] oxinabox: This is not at all obvious to me. Within the context I mentioned (commercial software development).

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Still not enough context as to why it is obviously a no-go. For example, Google Docs and Office365 are both commerical software. People pay a bunch for enterprise liscences. They ship javascript source code to me. There a number of commerical applications that ship perl scripts (and interpretter…

@nilshg Thanks. I had read those, but they are a couple of years old (which is a lot for Julia) and my question is not about it being possible to do compile or obfuscate, is about how most people use Julia in a commercial context. @oxinabox I am using Julia to do some research and that works great …

The problem you’re after isn’t really compilation — it’s obfuscation. Yes, compiling some languages can lead to a slightly obfuscated output to ship (especially with some simple steps like name stripping), but decompilers are really good these days. PackageCompiler doesn’t obfuscate at all. It’s …

@mbauman Thanks for the answer. It’s about shipping code. So if you tell me most people ship their codes as source and don’t care about obfuscation, then you’re right. If you say most commercial applications use PackageCompiler, then the follow up would be how they do that within manageable sizes (a…

[image] mbauman: The problem you’re after isn’t really compilation — it’s obfuscation. Yes, compiling some languages can lead to a slightly obfuscated output to ship (especially with some simple steps like name stripping), but decompilers are really good these days. A good example of this is: …

@oxinabox Interesting. But is anything commercial developed in Julia? This is what I’m asking.

[image] Ribeiro: But my assumption is that most people doing commercial software development ship mostly executables. I think it is probably reasonable to define commercial software development that way. Or that + SaaS. As you noted this is not a problem for SaaS. I suspect most profession…

How do most people get around (not) compiling?

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