It really puzzles me that people complain about compilation speed in Rust these days: I've worked on pretty big Rust code bases with lots of dependencies also, and cargo check has always been pretty much instant for me, including when I'm traveling and I use my mid-range laptop from 2012! (my main desktop is from 2018, I bought it because my previous desktop, from 2009 struggled to compile servo, mostly due to having too little RAM).

Debug build take a bit longer (a few seconds) on the desktop, while still staying below a minute on the laptop (remember, I'm talking about a 12 years old Clevo laptop, not a recent Macbook). It's definitely not worse than Typescript compilation or even Javascript bundling, yet we pretty much never hear complains about how typescript has too big compile times.

Yes, it could be faster with a different compiler architecture, especially on clean release builds and that would be nice, but it's a very minor annoyance (I don't do a full release build unless I've updated my compiler version, which only happens a few times a year).

The contrast between the discourse and my day-to-day experience on near obsolete hardware is very striking.

(Compilation artifact eating up hundreds of GB of my hard drive are a much, much bigger nuisance in practice, yet nobody seem to talk about that here on HN).