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Assuming my experience with Swift 5 is still accurate, compilation speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than Go. It’s a much more powerful language.
by josephg 2y ago
Assuming my experience with Swift 5 is still accurate, compilation speed is at least an order of magnitude slower than Go.
It’s a much more powerful language. In my opinion slower compilation is worth it for all of its great features. (Does Go even have parametric enums?). But its definitely a trade off.
- MBCook 2y agoThat’s the one big loss from moving off Objective-C. Because the language was so stupidly simple to parse and didn’t have a lot of “we’ll figure that out for you from what you wrote” it could be compiled incredibly quick on today’s machines. I know they’re working on improving it. I’m glad they are. But that speed is something I definitely miss.
- christophilus 2y agoOcaml makes me wonder if we really do need the trade off. It’s a fairly advanced language, and compiles super fast. I wonder why it’s such an outlier among advanced languages?