[bigstrat2003]

Yeah, I agree. Much like how the time you spend thinking about the code massively outweighs the time you spend writing the code, the time you spend writing the code massively outweighs the time you spend compiling the code. I think the fascination with compiler performance is focusing on by far the most insignificant part of development.

[dolmen]

This is underestimating that running the code is part of the development process.

With fast compile time, running the test suite (which implies to recompile it) is fast too.

Also if the language itself is optimized towards making easy to write a fast compiler, this also makes your IDE fast.

And just if you're wondering, yes, Go is my dope.