Comment by jason-johnson
1 day ago
Can you say what your development environment was like? I was having 15 minute build times for a pretty small system. Everyone talks about how slow Rust compile times are so I thought that's just how it is. Then, by chance, I ended up building from a clean install on my work laptop and it took about 3 minutes from scratch.
My development environment is VS Code running in a Dev container in docker desktop. So after my work laptop was so fast, I made some changes to my Mac docker desktop and suddenly the mac could build the project from scratch in about 2 minutes. Incremental compile was several minutes before, instant now.
Cargo in vscode on windows on a monstrously big machine (3990x/128GB RAM/NVMe drive, Gigabit Ethernet)
I think if it's that sensitive to environment issues, that solidifies the point that there are major problems that lots of people are going to have.