Thanks that’s really interesting feedback! Good for us all to be tuned in to what the actual problems are for various fields.
You’re not alone in the experience finding good dependencies when you’re doing something new. I’ve had to work on a lot of low-level tooling for spatial modelling that is easily available in other languages. The good news is jsut a few people can write a lot base functionality for a field in Julia, I couldn’t imagine doing that in another language.
Also it seems there is a bunch of work going into better binary compilation, hopefully that’s available to you in the next few releases to reduce those pain points.