Java compilation may be ridiculously fast, but maven/gradle makes it crawl. > The only info I found for Rust mentions something along the 5k lines/second mark

Java compilation may be ridiculously fast, but maven/gradle makes it crawl. > The only info I found for Rust mentions something along the 5k lines/second mark (on a different computer) On Pentium III? Let's see how it performs on M3 Pro: cargo loc --filter-platform=aarch64-apple-darwin ... Total lines: 961318 (783408 code, 77484 comments, 100426 blank lines) cargo clean cargo build Compiling libc v0.2.155 Compiling autocfg v1.1.0 Compiling cfg-if v1.0.0 Compiling proc-macro2 v1.0.69 Compiling unicode-ident v1.0.12 Compiling memchr v2.6.4 ... Compiling dtparse v2.0.0 Compiling fclones v0.35.0 (/Users/piotr/Projects/fclones/fclones) Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 9.75s Looks like it is about 80k LOC/s. Not bad. If pure javac can also do 100k LOC/s (which is definitely something I believe is possible) but then "Maven/Gradle is an order of magnitude slower" then my point stands. No-one uses pure javac to compile big projects.