Version 1.5 is an awesome release with some really nice stuff. That said, I can't help but feel frustrated by all the attention and effort being poured into compiler latency. I get that some people value it very highly, but to me it just seems silly to put so much effort towards this big group of whiners who find it unacceptable to wait __ seconds for the compiler to run before their first plot is produced (especially when PackageCompiler.jl exists!). To me, the important thing about julia is runtime performance. I'd gladly pay hefty compile times to have even minuscule runtime improvements.
To be clear, I'm not saying the Julia devs have been ignoring runtime performance, far from it, but I just sometimes feel the need to chime in like this because I often feel the compiler latency complainers are disproportionately squeaky wheels, so I'd hate to see that cause the devs to over-correct.
To be clear, I'm not saying the Julia devs have been ignoring runtime performance, far from it, but I just sometimes feel the need to chime in like this because I often feel the compiler latency complainers are disproportionately squeaky wheels, so I'd hate to see that cause the devs to over-correct.