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Sorry I may have missed the sarcasm. Your day job project takes half an hour to compile and you don't see the point in speeding that up?
by hu3 5y ago
Sorry I may have missed the sarcasm.
Your day job project takes half an hour to compile and you don't see the point in speeding that up?
- sanxiyn 5y agoGP did say it is a nice to have.
- hu3 5y agoBut also said that it's basically irrelevant. Hence my confusion.
- mlindner 5y agoIt wasn't sarcasm. My "irrelevant" point meant "it's irrelevant for a factor in picking a language", as in "it doesn't significantly contribute to whether a project is possible in the long term". If compile times are longer you just compile less often and write larger portions of code at a time and you generally keep writing code while it compiles.
- jackosdev 5y agoWorks when you've been using a minimal language like C for over a decade and you're an expert. For people learning a new language they constantly need to be recompiling to check their assumptions are correct, that's why it's so important for the masses.
- mlindner 5y agoIf they're a new developer they're not going to be compiling a massive project over and over I would assume. They'd be writing small toys to learn the language.