This makes languages such as Rust a tough sell for startups that can't yet afford $3000 M1 laptops for each Rust developer. Rust has incremental compilation an

This makes languages such as Rust a tough sell for startups that can't yet afford $3000 M1 laptops for each Rust developer. Rust has incremental compilation and it helps to make incremental builds faster. You also have to wait for compilation every time you run tests. Further, you wait for CI test suites to finish. Optimizing builds in CI, taking advantage of caching at the right steps, isn't widely understood nor does optimization completely address the problem with compile times. Throwing hardware at the problem makes sense, if you can afford to, but you still need to optimize the entire chain. Is a remote dev environment an economically viable alternative? I suspect not but haven't run the numbers. It's not clear to me what tier of virtual server would beat an M1 macbook pro with 32gb ram and sufficient number of cores.