> This slowness affects other software written in Julia as well. For example, my editor formats on save. For most languages, the formatting time-delay is not noticable, but for Julia it sometimes took more than 10 seconds.
> The idea of “You only need to start the interpreter once a day” failed for me.
For me, this is the biggest obstacle to using Julia. It's not designed to support the traditional C/Python/whatever workflow of editing a text file and then interpreting/compiling it; it wants you to be in the REPL all the time. If you don't use the REPL, you have horrible problems with package loading times. So if you're someone who doesn't like developing in a REPL, you're out of luck.
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