[norir]

> Or is it "any waiting is bad"?

Yes, this is the problem. Waiting is always bad for productivity. Even a second is long enough to lose a bit of focus. When that stretches out to 10 seconds, it starts getting tempting to, say, check Hacker News and lose your train of thought. I believe that most of the programs that I might be tempted to write in rust could be written in an alternate language with a compiler that is up to 100x faster. Of course this hypothetical language would have to be simpler than rust and would lack many of its features. As it currently stands though, I believe that it will be impossible to make the rust compiler 10x faster, let alone 100x faster so it would be nice if there was more effort to design alternative languages that build on what we've learned from rust to make something better.

[gaganyaan]

I don't really wait for the compiler much. One initial wait for a clean compile, sure. But after that, LSP mode means immediate feedback in my editor before I could even switch to my terminal