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Top level code in JuliaLang doesn’t do what you think it does

By: Frames White

Re-posted from: https://www.oxinabox.net/2023/06/16/top-level-code-in-julia.html

Hiii, it’s ya girl.
She is sleep deprieved because she need to adjust her sleep cycle 12 hours to prepare for JuliaCon 2023 in Boston.
Thus this blog-post is coming to you fresh from the small hours of the morning in Australia, to keep me awake.
Expect this to be more manic than usual.
I am here today to tell you that you are probabl wrong about what top-level code in julialang does.
Though if you understand precompilation well, then you do know that.
This post will explain what is even the point of __init__.

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