D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[harakim]

On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 01:20:28 UTC, matheus wrote:
> Reading over about other languages CT problems I wonder how 
> this half second is too terrible.  =]
> I barely see any difference between 500ms to 1000ms.

I love the fast compile time of D. It feels so freeing.

Contrast that to a Visual Studio solution I have with over 700 
projects and it takes 5 minutes to compile. Just compiling one 
project takes around 30s. That doesn't include the 75000 tests. 
It does bother me, but it's not so far outside the norm.

I'm also curious why a 500ms compile time would be generally 
recognized as way too long. Is it because it has potential to be 
faster or does it cause some legitimate problem? That's a 
question at large, not for Matheus.