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by UncleMeat 1067 days ago
There are maybe some programs where "time to first run" is a critical metric. But where I sit we spend way way way way more time living with a program after it has already been written. This means maintenance, bugfixes, and refactors.

Even if what you say is true, I'll trade some initial coding time to buy more efficient maintenance.