In the case of Codepagex I am kind of sad that Elixir can’t compile the coding pages to something like LISP’s s-expressions (OS-neutral format) and just bundle that with the library itself. That would rid us of the dilemmas forever.
As I see it, having to invoke the compiler in this particular case is more like a peculiarity of the BEAM and not a desired behaviour; I view the compilation as a hack here. Will the .beam files really be different under Windows, Linux, macOS? For what is basically a module with a bunch of functions that do pattern-matching on one and the same file input, no matter the OS? If the answer is “yes” then I’ll feel stupid but do tell me if so! 
I can understand timex having to periodically update timezones, for example. It’s a different case however; I don’t think the coding page files from Unicode.org even change (might be wrong though).
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