We as a community should be more understanding of Julia's flaws

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PackageCompiler was completely rewritten in 2020, and then StaticCompiler was completely rewritten in 2022. To say it’s not much a lot better is just plain incorrect. These days PackageCompiler works quite well with just one line of code and is actually documented (the version way back then was… bad). StaticCompiler is still limited in application but is quite good for what it handles now. Are they perfect? No, but they have improved at least 10-fold and are used in real industrial applications all of the time (they are used in all applications of JuliaSim for example, which could not have been possible with the old versions).

For details on PackageCompiler’s transformation, see

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