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by TakeBlaster16 1374 days ago
Strawman. Incremental compile times don't hit 2-5 minutes in either language, otherwise it obviously wouldn't be viable for real-world use.

And juggling variables was an ongoing ordeal when I tried. I can't imagine how you would work on code without changing any of the variables.
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throwawaymaths 1374 days ago
It's really not a problem for me. I've worked on probably about 20k LOC of zig. Probably the one time it was an issue was when I wrote some code that wrote zig -- and then it pushed me into realizing that this was a code smell, and a refactoring fixed it.

Compile times of 2-5 minutes can happen in langs that are not rust. You mentioned rust, not me. And anyways the 30s to hn thing is real.

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