Zig's Andrew Kelley: "The compiler is too dam slow, that's why we have bugs..."

[Don Allen]

On Tuesday, 30 January 2024 at 17:12:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> It would certainly slow me down if the edit-compile-debug loop 
> of the compiler was longer than a few seconds.

Yes, of course it would. But would you attribute bugs 
accumulating at too fast a rate **solely** to "the compiler is 
too damned slow" and make a public announcement about this 
epiphany?

The Zig compiler, which I've used a fair amount, including the 
new self-hosted non-llvm version, is not as fast as DMD, but it's 
not that far off. It is nowhere near as slow as the Rust compiler 
or GHC. Neither the Rust project nor the GHC project is 
accumulating bugs at the rate the Zig project is.