Everybody should be talking about how it takes Next.js 10 seconds to compile a route in development mode. Rust compiler is smoking in the corner.
I can’t think of a stack I’ve worked with that I loathed more since that one and only time looked at helping someone fix their Sharepoint site.
Who knew that if we just threw Clang in a browser we'd somehow have a more pleasant experience?
On a related note, we use PHP at work. Same fucking problem. It's a scripting language, should be painless no? Wrong. PHP has awful performance characteristics, so we need to generate some code ahead of time. So we have a custom build step that uses Composer. That custom build step is SLOW. Probably because it was created by shitty PHP programmers and not the people who wrote GCC.
It is unknown though what causes it to take 10 seconds to compile a route in dev mode after each change. They have a development environment guide[0] but it's all lies and doesn't actually work.
[0]: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/guides/local-development
Antivirus? Imports?
```
Compiled /analytics in 3.8s (3123 modules)
GET /analytics 200 in 5185ms
```
Doesn't explain the 10 seconds.