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by perfmode 3445 days ago
The swift compiler is probably too slow for projects as large as instagram.
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Peculiar this is being downvoted - compiler speed / reliability / support for incremental builds are all issues with large Swift projects. I've even see people go as far as splitting up their project into frameworks in order to bring build times below times as large as 10m and restore incremental compilation.
The swift compiler is used in many large projects.

And you probably overestimate how large Instagram, the app, is.