> Anything that increases build times is inherently a bad idea. Iteration time has been THE major issue on every project I've worked on. Sucks up man-hours like

> Anything that increases build times is inherently a bad idea. Iteration time has been THE major issue on every project I've worked on. Sucks up man-hours like nobody's business. I'd say this is only true part of the time. Optimizing for developers' time (thus, payroll cost) is a good idea, but not to the exclusion of other costs. For instance, if you're building a web app that's grown to the point where the business's primary cost is the hardware on which the software runs, it makes sense to make technology decisions with that in mind. Trading some developer efficiency for lower data center costs is perfectly reasonable.