I don't think that's fair, simply because things have actually gotten a lot better. This is shown in this blog post and it also is evident to people who use Jul

I don't think that's fair, simply because things have actually gotten a lot better. This is shown in this blog post and it also is evident to people who use Julia: https://i.redd.it/ik4uymvb28k51.png https://i.redd.it/ik4uymvb28k51.png Also, compiling a sysimage used to be an arcane art, and now works reasonably simply/well. It's easy to imagine a future where, with the tooling that is already there and without a magic breakthrough in caching Julia code, we simply get a per project sys-image in VSC that is recompiled when needed.