Sure! That's why I set a somewhat reasonable target at being just 5x or 10x times slower than a specific-purpose plotting tool. But even that is considered to be chimerical! (or, in your words, "ridiculous")
Now you are just putting words in my mouth. I would completely agree that 10x latency to first plot is a reasonable target (i.e. first plot in about a second, like you get in python and much faster than what you get in matlab/mathematica). And plenty of devs closer to core of Julia and the plotting libraries in it would agree.
And to be clear, I do expect my second plot to be ready in tens of milliseconds.
