[goostavos]

They become really frustrating as the project grows in size. Personally, it becomes really difficult to maintain productivity. As compile times tick up, I start bouncing over to other tabs rather than just twiddling my thumbs starring at a terminal. Then I realize I've been on Reddit for a half-hour.

I recently watched this talk by Johnathan Blow[0] where he talks about quality of life in programming languages and spends a fair amount of time talking about compile times and their effects.

I think we collectively need to re-align on being performance focused. Tools are simultaneously amazing but crummy at the same time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZgbKrDEzAs&t=2s

[kiliancs]

I don't love the compile times, but I'll also say with TypeScript I tend to check the browser that often. TS also means simpler refactoring, for example.

Note also: * type checks can run in parallel, so they won't block your other build block * the tsc has been making gradual improvements to performance and techniques to improve compilation and type checking * there are speedy alternatives to the TypeScript compiler (tsc) (eg: https://sucrase.io) for transpilation