A lot of great progress is happening in PackageCompiler.jl (large binaries, very useable) and StaticCompiler.jl (small binaries, still immature).

I'd argue that Julia is much closer to having a good static compilation story than Swift or Nim are to having vibrant scientific ecosystems.

> Plus it's easier to package binaries than scripts which usually require Docker to deal with dependencies in a sane way.

Julia does have a really good story for reproducible dependency management. We learned a lot of valuable lessons by looking at Python's dumpsterfire.