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Yeah cold compiles are slow, but most modern tools keep a hot compiler to re-use and once warm a hot compile of hello world is more like ~200ms. There's a bit o

Yeah cold compiles are slow, but most modern tools keep a hot compiler to re-use and once warm a hot compile of hello world is more like ~200ms. There's a bit of complexity managing these daemons, but that's something that the build tool normaly handles for you transparently

bjarneh 6y ago
Yes it gets better, and the 'fsc' (Fast Scala Compiler) does improve on the situation somewhat; but I've always found it annoyingly slow. It should be mentioned that I haven't looked very hard at that language in many years for that very reason; so things could have improved somewhat. And from what I understand, the next version of Scala (Dotty) is going address this issue (build speed).
- lihaoyi 6y ago
  The compiler has sped up 3x in the past few years. That's a very big speedup, and the current experience is likely nothing like what you remember
  - bjarneh 6y ago
    Sounds good, perhaps a language that needs a revisit.