It's not doomed, no. It's possible to have a low-latency Julia. It's just been happening slower that one could have hoped, especially for the users who started

It's not doomed, no. It's possible to have a low-latency Julia. It's just been happening slower that one could have hoped, especially for the users who started using Julia and could tolerate the latency because they expected it would be better soon. * It's been reduced by like 75% (roughly, not sure about the real number) since Julia 1.0, so material progress has been made. * In the future (I'm guessing 1-2 years, of course uncertain), native code caching could make a huge difference. * On a similar timescale, Julia could allow compilation into static binaries. This could possibly be done for some dependencies that does not need to be generic, which would take another chunk of the compilation need off.