Rust suffers from having to compile LLVM as build dependency.
This will surely improve when Rust no longer requires it.
Go compile times are sweet, true. But Modula-2 and Pascal dialect compilers were already achieving similar compile speeds in 16 bit compilers a few decades ago.
Young developers get impressed by Go compilation times because they never experienced those systems.
Those compile times don't include building LLVM, which, on the rare occasion that a recompile is necessary, will add about five minutes on a beefy desktop and about an hour on our buildbots.
This will surely improve when Rust no longer requires it.
Go compile times are sweet, true. But Modula-2 and Pascal dialect compilers were already achieving similar compile speeds in 16 bit compilers a few decades ago.
Young developers get impressed by Go compilation times because they never experienced those systems.