Comment by adastra22
14 hours ago
Slow compared to what? I’m still scraping my head at this. My cargo builds are insanely fast, never taking more than a minute or two even on large projects. The only ahead of time compiled language I’ve used with faster compilation speed is Go, and that is a language specifically designed around (and arguably crippled by) the requirement for fast compilation. Rust is comparable to C compilation, and definitely faster than C++, Haskell, Java, Fortran, Algol, and Common Lisp.
Just a few days ago I used cargo to install something. It took like two minutes at the last stage. Definitely not comparable to C or Fortran. I never had to wait that much before. With C++? Definitely. Never with C though.