> Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t think compiled languages are for you. You just need an adequate build system that can perform incremental compilat

> Don’t take this the wrong way, but I don’t think compiled languages are for you. You just need an adequate build system that can perform incremental compilation and does not run a whole lot of unnecessary steps on every build no matter what changes. Where I work, our system is huge and includes code written in multiple languages. A change to a "leaf module" (one which is not depended on by many modules) takes a second or two. You only get into 10s of seconds if you change code that affects the external API of a module which triggers the re-build of many other modules (a "core" module) - because in such case there's no escape and many LoC must be re-compiled to verify they still work. To keep it this way is not easy: you must constantly fix mistakes people make often, like add a new build step which runs unconditionally - everything should run conditionally (normally on whether its inputs or outputs were touched), and optimise things that take too long (e.g. slow tests and moving code that changes often from core to a leaf module).