Comment by tnova

I think you could have left it at differing experiences and not gone further saying I'm handwaving anything. That doesn't seem productive.

I'm not saying that Rust compilation time is comparable to Go/TS, I'm saying the blanket claim that Rust iteration speed will be a bottleneck requires context.

I definitely agree with you that it is a complaint that is often repeated online, but that doesn't make it universally true. In my experience it's a claim that is often echoed without proper context.

Particularly in the case of AI Rust recompliation times in my experience have not been the dominant cost, but are instead overshadowed by inference time, the agent working through different approaches, etc.