- We are directing material resources (as in, hours of paid work) to improving compiler performance. We consider this a serious problem, and "the compiler performance is always improving" is not an accurate gloss of the amount of work people are putting into solving it.
- We would love to have a REPL but there are nontrivial technical challenges, and it has not been a major requested feature by our users.
- I have never heard the complaint about the size of packages before now; I have no idea how we compare to other languages in this regard.
I've witnessed some of the conversations you're talking about (I think I engaged with you about REPLs in the past), and I think the "true-believer syndrome" has more to do with how you interpret the answers you receive than with the behavior of anyone else.
- We would love to have a REPL but there are nontrivial technical challenges, and it has not been a major requested feature by our users.
- I have never heard the complaint about the size of packages before now; I have no idea how we compare to other languages in this regard.
I've witnessed some of the conversations you're talking about (I think I engaged with you about REPLs in the past), and I think the "true-believer syndrome" has more to do with how you interpret the answers you receive than with the behavior of anyone else.