Aha we are talking about two different uses of the word safer. You are talking about safer from a security point of view. I’m talking about safety from a static environment point of view. In the view I’m taking, the completely static environment of a docker container would be a logical conclusion.
Deploying statically linked binaries in a standardized server/computing environment is an important and regular use case. It reduces dependencies and is comparatively much safer than a dynamically linked system.
I agree package_compiler.jl is part of the solution for this use case. I wanted to explain to Tamas, why people might care for package_compiler.jl in the first place.