alt Hacker NewsIt disappoints me how unseriously the industry has taken compilation speed for so long. I'm glad to see Zig doing incredibly valuable, high-impact work here.
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pjmlp • today at 5:35 PM
Yes, we get people amazed to rediscover Modula-2, Object Pascal compiler execution speed.
logicchains • today at 5:14 PM
Golang's reason for existence is pretty much compilation speed.
Well, I remember back in the day Java was winning a lot of love from C++ devs over its much-much faster compilation than C++. It was important, even 15+ years ago. People praised faster iteration time while coding.