First Pluto notebook launches are slower on Julia 1.9 beta 3

I was a fan of Pluto before, and considered this package as a distinct feature in julia ecosystem, until one day I found I need to re-install every package every time I run a notebook.

I think this is the result of chasing reproducibility. For me, the charm of Pluto was that after you modified a cell, the other related cells get updated automatically, which means you don’t need to execute them by your self and maybe forget one of them. This really reduces the mental burden and makes the analysis of output extremely smooth.

Reproducibility is a good idea, but like any other good idea, when you push it to extreme, it is not that good anymore. (If we really want reproducibility, then the next step would be installing the specified version of julia, and the libraries it uses…but I just want to run a simple notebook!)

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