[cmrdporcupine]

I worked in the chromium C++ source tree for years and compiling there was orders of magnitude slower than any Rust source tree I've worked in so far.

Granted, there aren't any Rust projects that large yet, but I feel like compilation speeds are something that can be worked around with tooling (distributed build farms, etc.). C++'s lack of safety and a proclivity for "use after free" errors is harder to fix.

[gpderetta]

Are there rust projects that are within orders of magnitude of Chromium?

[alpaca128]

Almost a quarter of Firefox' compiled code is Rust: https://4e6.github.io/firefox-lang-stats/

[gpderetta]

Nice. That's more than I expected. What's the compilation time compared to, say, the c++ portion?