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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:51:53 JST Rich Felker

   I wish compiler folks understood that the main use case (or at least *a* main use case) for the compiler is building other people's code to run on your own system or with very minor changes to meet your needs.

   I.e. that compile time actually matters, and in particular, matters a lot more than functionality meant to assist in development.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 05:55:25 JST Rich Felker

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     Very close parallels to the problem with browser folks: they think their job is to serve developers (publishers) not end users.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 07:08:00 JST Rich Felker

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     • firebreathingduck

     @firebreathingduck I was thinking particularly GCC and LLVM with C++ sources.

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     firebreathingduck (firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Feb-2025 07:08:01 JST firebreathingduck

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     @dalias

     Wasn't fast compile times a primary design goal in Go?

     I think a few other languages have, or at least had, fast compilation as a goal for that reason too. D and Zig come to mind.

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     Demi Marie Obenour (alwayscurious@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 05:23:22 JST Demi Marie Obenour

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     @dalias Are you thinking of specific functionality or just overall priorities?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 05:23:22 JST Rich Felker

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     • Demi Marie Obenour

     @alwayscurious Priorities.