> Plotting, it turns out, is basically a really hard thing for a compiler. It is many, many, small methods, most of which are only called once. And unlike most Julia code, it doesn’t actually benefit all that much from Julia’s JIT. Julia’s JIT is normally specializing code, and running a ton of optimizations. But plotting itself isn’t in the hot-loop – optimizing the code takes longer than running it the few dozen times it might be used unoptimized. To make a long-story short, plotting is the poster child example for Julia needing to compile things before it can run them.
This is misleading. There's no reason you need to to compile the plotting library every time you load a REPL or program. Python, a "slow" interpreted language handles this quickly, as does Rust, a slow-to-compile Lang - You can compile and run a Rust program that plots more quickly than in Julia, since it doesn't need to compile the plotting lib after it's initially installed.
This is misleading. There's no reason you need to to compile the plotting library every time you load a REPL or program. Python, a "slow" interpreted language handles this quickly, as does Rust, a slow-to-compile Lang - You can compile and run a Rust program that plots more quickly than in Julia, since it doesn't need to compile the plotting lib after it's initially installed.