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by pjmlp 790 days ago
Note that I left out Scala, while I included other languages of similar complexity, exactly because improving compile times has never been a major focus in Scala land, versus features.

Example, development effort wasted on Scala 3 Python like syntax.

There are several performance reports that show that the major culprit is the pile of LLVM IR sent to the backend.