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by pjmlp 3113 days ago
> And beat 99% of other compilers today, meaning that overall compiler complexity has grown.

Which ones?

> For me (tm), Go compilation speed has compared equal or favorably against C, C++, Java, C#, Rust at least.

Since when does Go compile faster than Java and C#?

When I hit Ctrl+S my binary is already on the disk, thanks to incremental compiler integration on the IDE.

I have a full blown WPF application with multiple plugins, including data visualization, talking to Oracle and Postgres, total compilation time after check out 12s.

Eiffel, D, Nim, Jai are other fast compilation examples.