On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 11:06:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
it can get even better if you properly modularize your projects instead of having 1-2 files that build slow, which causes a lot of waiting.
Yes, sure. You can probably get the same build speeds as with C if you organize your code in a particular way or shy away from certain patterns.
What I was talking about was the language, meaning that you don't write your code to give a boost in compilation speed. Clearly possible, but if you use third party frameworks… then you're out of luck.
An analogy: SQL isn't particularly expressive, but the limitations of the language makes it possible to execute it bottom-up. NOSQL engines are even less expressive, but can be even more easily distributed.
