Okay, semi-related:
Why is the speed of the Go compiler so important? Why not just use an incremental compiler? Why the hell would you want to recompile a 100k+ line program when there are known better alternatives?
Just doesn't make sense to me.
Why is the speed of the Go compiler so important? Why not just use an incremental compiler? Why the hell would you want to recompile a 100k+ line program when there are known better alternatives?
Just doesn't make sense to me.
Of course, you can do something like incremental compilation only at -O0 with no inlining, which is what I suspect we'll end up doing in Rust (the relevant bug is [1]).
Why not do both? I appreciate that Go respects my time.
It turns out that way more than the C++ set were interested in Go. Naturally, people familiar with environments where compilation speed is a non-issue were mystified by our enthusiasm for Go's low compilation times.
go seems to be nice, but compilation speed is no real argument!