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> Worse, the developer time you spend due to lack of a feature, you spend while writing some code that would benefit from the feature. The compiler time you pay every time you compile - year after year, for some projects.

Except that this is a false dichotomy: you don't have to have a lack of features to get a fast compile. Incremental compiles have existed for a very long time in various language ecosystems and will achieve very acceptable results.

In addition, SSDs and multicore CPUs can be leveraged to decrease compile times, and these things are only getting better.