'using Plots' takes 20 seconds or more

Is this issue still actively worked on?

@time using Plots
11.354988 seconds (18.48 M allocations: 1.024 GiB, 3.34% gc time)

$ time julia -e “using Plots”

real 0m11,482s
user 0m10,651s
sys 0m0,373s

$ time python -c “import matplotlib”

real 0m0,868s
user 0m0,411s
sys 0m0,264s

$ time gnuplot -e “”

real 0m0,026s
user 0m0,023s
sys 0m0,003s

I thought Julia wanted to rival C’s speed, not be slower than python.

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