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Comment by nicoburns

7 hours ago

It's mostly because a lot of the web tooling is written in JavaScript. The build times for the "next generation" tools written in Rust/Go are dramatically faster.

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JoeCortopassi  1 hour ago

Agreed. My frontend/react builds use esbuild, and rebuild fast enough that it feels like hot module reloading

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