Has anyone tried the `--trim` option? I wonder how well it works in "real life".
it works well --- IF your code is already written in a manner amenable to static analysis. if your coding style is highly dynamic it will probably be difficult to use this feature for the time being (although UX should of course improve over time)
I've tried it on some of my julia code. The lack of support for dynamic dispatch severely limits the use of existing libraries. I spent a couple days pruning out dependencies that caused problems, before hitting some that I decided would be more effort to re-implement than I wanted to spend.
So for now we will continue rewriting code that needs to run on small systems rather than deploy the entire julia environment, but I am excited about the progress that has been made in creating standalone executables, and can't wait to see what the next release holds.