4 ms·

None of these are worth switching to a fringe ecosystem for. The compile-example is misleading. Clean build times don't really matter. Iteration times with "ts

None of these are worth switching to a fringe ecosystem for. The compile-example is misleading. Clean build times don't really matter. Iteration times with "tsc -w" would've likely been well under a second. The boiler-plate in the redux example could be reduced, but redux itself is extremely boilerplate-heavy when written in this explicit style. It would be interesting to see how the ReasonML typesystem gets in the way of metaprogramming.

a0 7y ago
One place where clean build times do matter is in the CI. Having very fast builds and tests is great for speedy deployments.
- gridlockd 7y ago
  Why? Does your CI do a clean build for every test?
  - yawaramin 7y ago
    Most CIs do clean builds for every PR, merge, and deploy ... that adds up to a lot of time.
sikan 7y ago
At work our TS project with a thousand files takes 30mins on CI, incremental save takes at least 20 second. Half of the time makes the machine run out of memory. Bucklescript can have a clean build of 1.2k files project in under 4 seconds! https://twitter.com/bobzhang1988/status/1160846763747508224 https://twitter.com/bobzhang1988/status/1160846763747508224
- gridlockd 7y ago
  Thanks for the data point. Those aren't the same thousand files though. If your project has a thousand source files of any programming language, it's probably time to quit and join a younger company.