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by IshKebab
67 days ago
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Nobody is saying Rust is perfect. I could point out many many flaws in Pascal, C and Zig too. Besides Rust's compile time is actually fairly reasonable these days. Certainly not fast, but better than C++ and people have tolerated that for decades, so it's hardly a deal-breaker. |
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Yes. They're flawed. Everyone knows, but great detective work.
> Rust's compile time is actually fairly reasonable these days. Certainly not fast, but[…]
That's not reasonable.
Golang's compile times with the official toolchain are fast, despite the compiler being self-hosting and all the criticisms about the suboptimal code that its emitter produces. So with the official golang compiler being one such low-quality binary, by any reasonable measure, one should be able to expect the official Rust toolchain to be at least as fast. (Unless the explanation for that is as simple as that they just never give a shit about compile times. And I gotta say, I'm kind of getting the feeling that that might be the case. But it's still early days—Rust is a brand-new project after all—so maybe we should wait until it's at least a few years old before we come to any conclusions.)
And none of this addresses the demands on other resources, like memory—which was somehow deemed important somewhere near the root of this thread. (I guess that's not the case anymore, somehow.)