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Rust could have been designed for faster compilation without sacrificing runtime speed, safety, good abstractions, expressiveness and whatnot in any regard. The

Rust could have been designed for faster compilation without sacrificing runtime speed, safety, good abstractions, expressiveness and whatnot in any regard. The people designing Rust just either did not care or did not have the experience to do so. And it can not be fixed anymore because that would require too much breaking changes. And yes, a substantial time is also spent for things like the borrow checker but no all of it. An no, it is not a niche requirement. Short compile times are absolutely critical for developer productivity. One main reason Golang exists and got popular is that people got fed up with how slow C++ is to compile. Not to mention that most people on this earth are not as privileged as to have a beefy machine.

howinteresting 4y ago
cargo check is pretty fast.
gnull 4y ago
> Rust could have been designed for faster compilation without sacrificing runtime speed, safety, good abstractions, expressiveness Can you back this up? I'm not a programming language expert, so if there's some common knowledge you're referring to, I'm not aware of it. > most people on this earth are not as privileged There's very little "privilege" you need to compile Rust. In my spare time, I develop mainly in Haskell on my ThinkPad X270 and it goes just fine. Building libraries takes time, yes, but you need to do it just once. And while it's building you can think with a piece of paper more — also privilege in a way.