Improving Compilation Time of C/C++ Projects

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And keep waiting/hoping for modules.

Where unity builds and pre-compiled headers cause more declarations to become visible in a source file, modules allow stronger separation. This should be a win for the SW architecture, whereas pre-compiled headers tend to muddy up the includes.

Completely agree. This is definitely one of the perks of the new Rust push...they have a package manager from day where as C is still struggling to have any reasonable solution after 20 years.

Precompiled headers are definitely a hack to a problem that shouldn't be necessary.

Ada has had this since day one. C++ committee just sat by and ignored the biggest organizational flaw in C that was glaringly obvious in 1998.

C++ is used my many big actors who are either competitors or have very different requirements in the field they operate on, why significant codebases. Those reasons are why C++ committees are painful and long.

C is fast to compile, compared to C++.

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