You seem to be falling into the same trap you lament in your comment:
- The other side is "these people" that "won't stop"
- They're striving for "hyper-efficiency" at the cost of "hundreds and thousands of hours"
- People who complain about this issue don't (or do significantly less of) reading documentation/code/etc
People talk about TTFP because it is a real issue that is off-putting for many programmers that would otherwise love to use Julia. Julia is roughly an order of magnitude slower than python in this instance on my computer, and that's not a good first impression.
That doesn't mean that everyone is going to be impacted by this issue (obvious ex: you aren't), but this isn't akin to a flamewar because unlike editor choice (which is opinion), Julia would be better for everyone if TTFP was improved. Whether or not it should be prioritized as a development goal is up to the Julia team, but it's not just some difference of opinion like interpreted vs compiled or functional vs OO.
- The other side is "these people" that "won't stop"
- They're striving for "hyper-efficiency" at the cost of "hundreds and thousands of hours"
- People who complain about this issue don't (or do significantly less of) reading documentation/code/etc
People talk about TTFP because it is a real issue that is off-putting for many programmers that would otherwise love to use Julia. Julia is roughly an order of magnitude slower than python in this instance on my computer, and that's not a good first impression.
That doesn't mean that everyone is going to be impacted by this issue (obvious ex: you aren't), but this isn't akin to a flamewar because unlike editor choice (which is opinion), Julia would be better for everyone if TTFP was improved. Whether or not it should be prioritized as a development goal is up to the Julia team, but it's not just some difference of opinion like interpreted vs compiled or functional vs OO.