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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.




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