Sure... and it means that Swift and Clojure are just as useless as Julia for numerous use cases where start-up times matter, like piping CLI commands together, in Julia's case you're looking at pathetic 3 execs per second.
Moreover, even in some server-side applications it's super neat to have the luxury to spawn a new process to service certain requests, not having to worry about memory leaks. It's a perfect "API" which allows multiple languages to interact together.
It always bothered me when people dismiss the start-up time by adding "just" in front of it. We're not talking about web frameworks, these are _general purpose_ programming languages, and horrendous start-up time automatically disqualifies them from being general purpose and places them into a niche category, in my humble opinion.
Moreover, even in some server-side applications it's super neat to have the luxury to spawn a new process to service certain requests, not having to worry about memory leaks. It's a perfect "API" which allows multiple languages to interact together.
It always bothered me when people dismiss the start-up time by adding "just" in front of it. We're not talking about web frameworks, these are _general purpose_ programming languages, and horrendous start-up time automatically disqualifies them from being general purpose and places them into a niche category, in my humble opinion.