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I learned to program using Turbo Pascal and kept going with Delphi. I then had a 10 year break doing mainly C++. Having compile times suddenly go up 10-100x I

I learned to program using Turbo Pascal and kept going with Delphi. I then had a 10 year break doing mainly C++. Having compile times suddenly go up 10-100x I found myself being much more careful before compiling. Don't think I spent that much more time, just an extra pass looking things over, making sure I wasn't doing something obviously wrong etc. Hard to maintain that discipline now that I'm back to "instant" compilation, for some reason.

wenc 3y ago
On one hand, high compile times make you think about your code more deeply. No one will dispute that this is a good discipline. On the other hand, computers can check so many more cases more quickly and more correctly. I think there's a point at which you say, "I'm going to get better results by letting the machine do the work."