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by karmakaze 1962 days ago
I'm a back-end dev (various languages), and recently did some front-end work with React/TypeScript. It took minutes to 'compile' the 'scripting' language for me to run my changes in my development environment. That was as bad as the worst (mixed Java/Scala) project compile times I'd experienced using a JVM language. Some/most(?) of that might be asset handling, but 'modern' toolchains don't know their own cost or value.