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I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time. I guarantee I missed 'the point' of a lot of things at that age! Shoot me. Even today, though, if you told me there was a gre
by ken 6y ago
I was maybe 8 or 9 at the time. I guarantee I missed 'the point' of a lot of things at that age! Shoot me.
Even today, though, if you told me there was a great new programming language, but I had to wait a minute every time I made a change before running my program, I don't imagine I'd be terribly excited to learn it.
Right next to this on HN is a 2014 article by WalterBright that reports "compiler speed matters a lot". What's the last compiler you used that spent 60 seconds compiling a single file?
- DonHopkins 6y ago>What's the last compiler you used that spent 60 seconds compiling a single file? Unity3D C# => CIL => il2cpp => emscripten => WebAssembly. ;( Nowadays, we compile a single file with many compilers. And you change one line, then you have to recompile and repackage the whole chain.