As a sibling comment mentions, yes it does. Just don’t expect to have code that runs as fast as C without some effort put into it. You still need to write your program in a static enough way to obtain those speed. It’s not the easiest thing in the world, since the tooling is, yes, improving but is still not there yet.

If you then want to access fully trimmed small executables then you have to start writing Julia similarly to how you write rust.

To me the fact that this is even possible blows my mind and I have tons of fun coding in it. Except when precompiling things. That is something that really needs to be addressed.