It’s not directly related to python at all, it just happens to be useful for people who want to call Julia code from python.
The discussions and work around this are somewhat spread out, see, e.g.,
- Reddit - Dive into anything
- This year’s julia developer survey
- Plans for static compiled binaries?
- https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/50974
- cli: Add infrastructure for new CLI drivers `juliax` and `juliac` by Keno · Pull Request #51417 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub
- Main entrypoint take 3 - revenge of the macro by Keno · Pull Request #51435 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub
- Refactor code to make it more amenable to cross compilation by gbaraldi · Pull Request #150 · tshort/StaticCompiler.jl · GitHub
- Introduction · WebAssemblyCompiler