> I can't imagine a situation If you have N scripts that produce N plots for a paper, you can't just drop them in a makefile or you will pay the 15 second pena

> I can't imagine a situation If you have N scripts that produce N plots for a paper, you can't just drop them in a makefile or you will pay the 15 second penalty over and over and over every time you build. You can't reset the interactive session as a matter of habit to aggressively control state build-up. Even iterating on a dashboard becomes painful with a long startup time. You have to treat your Julia session like a child, not like cattle. That's limiting and not everyone wants to it, especially now that they are used to treating python sessions like cattle and reaping the benefits.