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I am talking about compilation speed. I recently started working with Rust for contributing to projects like Rome/tools [1] and deno_lint [2]. My first impression with Rust is a bit frustrating: compilation takes tens of seconds or minutes. I am waiting in front of my IDE to get type hints / go-to def (often to fall-back to a text search). When I am launching unit tests, I am waiting that rust-analyzer terminates its indexing, and then I am waiting again that the tests compile… The tools are now mature, and a lot of engineering work is done on both rust compiler and rust-analyzer. I am afraid that the slow compilation of Rust is rooted to its inherent complexity. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno_lint

Fast compilation seems very appealing. It is one of the main reason why I am interested into Go and Zig. I recently started working with Rust for contributing to projects like Rome/tools [1] and deno_lint [2]. The compilation and IDE experience is frustrating. Compilation is slow. I am afraid that this is rooted to the inherent complexity of Rust. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools [2] https://github.com/denoland/deno_lint

Exiting news! Congratulations to the Rome team! I hope that Rome will soon support semicolon removal [1] and lint rules such as explicit-module-boundary-types provided by Deno-lint [2]. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/issues/3535 [2] https://lint.deno.land/?q=&all=on#explicit-module-boundary-t...

I found it interesting that a good chunk of outside contributions[1] happened before funding, and have almost completely stopped. [1] https://github.com/rome/tools/graphs/contributors