alt Hacker NewsHowever because of this, Julia has has persistent problems with "time to first plot", which has gotten better, but they cannot fully ameliorate due to the way it fundamentally works. So there are tradeoffs -- the performance gets better, but the interpreted REPL experience is markedly worse.
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FacelessJim • today at 5:34 PM
By the way, the current nightly (especially if considering the optimized build) has a very substantial TTFX drop compared to the current release [1]
It is overly exaggerated, especially when taken into account how long it takes to compile native libraries that people keep calling "Python" libraries, if there isn't a suitable wheel for the current environment.