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When we launched Go we made a big deal about compilation time because we were trying to appeal to C++ programmers. In large C++ projects it is not unusual to wait tens of minutes or even hours for projects to build. Today, the largest Go projects take mere seconds to build.

It turns out that way more than the C++ set were interested in Go. Naturally, people familiar with environments where compilation speed is a non-issue were mystified by our enthusiasm for Go's low compilation times.