> I've experienced this myself, it's pretty frustrating to wait 2-5 minutes for a C++ app to compile / link just so you can debug it for 30 seconds and start al

> I've experienced this myself, it's pretty frustrating to wait 2-5 minutes for a C++ app to compile / link just so you can debug it for 30 seconds and start all over again. That's quaint. When I first started working in C++ professionally, we were at +16 hours for a clean build and link of just one of our systems (circa 2004). Over the years, reduced the amount of code (without sacrificing functionality), shared common code (object model) between client and server (went from about 2M LOC to about 250k LOC), reduced the number of external dependencies, introduced precompiled headers on both windows and Linux, and a clean build was down to about 30 minutes. An incremental build and link could be less than 30 seconds, depending on the scope of the change. But, yeah, C++ leaves a lot to be desired in terms of edit, build, test, repeat cycles.