> very slow compilation times
That isn't always the case. Slow compilations are usually because of procedural macros and/or heavy use of generics. And even then compile times are often comparable to languages like typescript and scala.
That isn't always the case. Slow compilations are usually because of procedural macros and/or heavy use of generics. And even then compile times are often comparable to languages like typescript and scala.
But of course that doesn't negate this cost, but building can always be done on another machine as a way to circumvent the problem.
Most of the examples of "this is what makes Rust compilation slow" are code generation related; for example, a Rust proc_macro making compilation slow would be equivalent to C building a code generator (for schemas? IDLs?), running it, then compiling the output along with its user.
It's only when you get very large projects that compilation time becomes a problem.
If typescript compilation speed wasn't a problem, then why would Microsoft put resources into rewriting the tyescript compiler in Go to make it faster[1]?