Did you try v1.9 or v1.10 yet? From others I'm hearing that the code caching changed Makie from about 70 seconds down to 10 in v1.9, and then the loading time i

Did you try v1.9 or v1.10 yet? From others I'm hearing that the code caching changed Makie from about 70 seconds down to 10 in v1.9, and then the loading time improvements brought it to like 5 (unreleased of course, though v1.10 should be branching in a few weeks). Makie load times were of course one of the ones highlighted in the release notes of v1.9: https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/ https://julialang.org/blog/2023/04/julia-1.9-highlights/. So while Makie won't be "instant" by v1.10 (<1 second), it was one of the worst offenders before and has gone from "wtf" to "bad but manageable".