Julia has its own heap of issues, but five minutes is a load of bull:
> time julia -e 'using Plots; plot(rand(10, 5), rand(10))'
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Executed in 5.77 secs fish external
usr time 5.74 secs 214.00 micros 5.74 secs
sys time 0.57 secs 0.00 micros 0.57 secs
This is also on a fairly old version at that:
> julia -v
julia version 1.6.3
Regardless, this conversation was to be about Cython; it which deserves a lot of praise in its own right as a tool in your toolbox to make the blasted snake run faster.