What do you mean by 'fast enough'? As compiled languages go I think it's generally accepted that go compiles relatively quickly, especially for large projects with lots of dependencies (as it has saner dependency rules than c/++).

> still a (major) pain point

What? Go compiler is blazing fast. It's one of the fastest compilers of major languages if not the fastest.

Some discussion from 2016: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2976630/how-does-go-comp...