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by verdagon 2179 days ago
I'm not sure safety has anything to do with long compile times, can you enlighten?
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There’s a lot happening at compile time that less safe languages don’t do. Type checking and type erasure, etc
As the article explains, this all is a relatively minor contribution to compile times.
Ada/SPARK does it.
IIRC, languages like Java and Go compile quite fast, and they are even safer than Rust...