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by mxz3000 975 days ago
if you have a reasonably good IDE you don't really need to explicitly compile the whole program outside of when you want to run it.
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Which on any kind of graphical application is all the time.
Because that IDE is compiling the code behind the scenes... (Usually somewhere on a spectrum between literally just using the real compiler, or failing spectacularly to match it.)