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Maybe they're not using a language with insanely bloated compile times?

• edejong 9y ago
  It's not just about compile time. Couple of examples: - Parallel downloading / uploading of artifacts - Multi-step transformation (old-style: lexer to C to Object file to linker to deployment). You can turn this around, but generally you want each output of your lexer to be input to the C compiler and so on. - Testing (especially brute-force testing might take time) And in modern situations you have the same, with Typescript => Javascript => Minimisation => Combination => Deployment (roughly). It really helps to think of this as a dependency chain and use a partial-order planner to find a possible linearization and execute.