alt Hacker NewsFor the utilities I write it is faster to iterate without having to compile. When I get to the point where I'm done adding changing features, and performance is an annoyance I can always ask the AI to "rewrite this in Go". (I've never gotten to that point.)
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throwaway2037 • today at 8:38 AM
I hear this sentiment from time to time. With a modern PC, IDE and Java or C# development toolkit, incremental compile times are insanely fast, even on very large projects. I can say with first hand experience: You can iterate as fast as Python. I don't know enough about Golang to say the same.