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Re:Julia v1.3 by omaranto on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @09:54AM (#21638729)
> If you want tight feedback loops you have to figure out a way to reuse a Julia instance

I think Julia is meant to be used like Lisp:

- Step 1: Open the REPL.

- Step 2: Don't close it until you are finished (both writing and running your program).

My best guess is that people that complain about startup speed of Julia (and Emacs too for that matter) ignore step 2.

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Re:Julia v1.3 by tfunnell on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:49AM (#21703821)
For myself, I write scripts that are part of automated analysis pipelines. So in my case (and probably others), using the REPL is mostly useful for testing code.
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