Over the years I’ve kept coming back to Julia, like what I see, but ultimately end up with a deadline that has me reaching for R or Python. My latest foray has convinced me that the ecosystem is ready for me to double down and make it my language of first recourse for data science related tasks this year.<p>Precompilation sounds like it improves further on an annoyance (time-to-first-plot problem) that was already no longer much of an annoyance in Julia 1.8x.