Is there any progress when it comes to the slow package loading times of Julia? That made it quite unusable as a data exploration language when I last tried it about 1 year ago, but perhaps there was progress in that regard.
Julia 0.4, already in the RC phase, has precompilation thanks to Jameson Nash's work. It has been enabled for several packages, and gives sub-second load times.
That issue is largely resolved in 0.4. Some functions are still a little slow, but most packages will now load much more quickly.
Thank you both, there are very good news. I'll give it a try as soon as 0.4 is launched.