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Not quickly, no. But neither does C++ (how long does it take to compile Clang?) and people manage fine.

Faster would obviously be better, but it's not big enough of a deal to cancel out all the advantages compared to C.

I once moved a C++ project to C, and compile times went from 15 minutes to 5 seconds. It was a huge productivity boost. LLVM being slow to compile is also one of the reasons the Zig folk are looking to make it an optional dependency.

I remember a project that used boost for very few things, but it included a single boost header in almost every file. That one boost header absolutely inflated the build times to insane levels.

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