D Language Foundation August 2023 Monthly Meeting Summary

[matheus]

On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 at 12:59:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> ...
> Adam said his library compiled in half a second. Robert said 
> that was still too slow. His work project didn't compile in 
> half a second. He said his goal was that by the time of the 
> key-up event after pressing 'Enter' on Ninja or whatever build 
> tool/compiler he's using, it should have already restarted the 
> application. Átila agreed that half a second was too long.
> ...

Reading over about other languages CT problems I wonder how this 
half second is too terrible.  =]

I mean I'm not against Robert's complain, I don't know how 
complex his software is, and CT maybe is really a problem for him.

But for example where I work we use C# and so on, and CT is not 
great either, and if it is a web project, well just to start a 
local server and so on takes much more than 1 second, in fact I'd 
trade many things to have this 1 second or anything closer to 
that.

Of course if you measure things and keep watching you will see 
the difference, but in daily basis, while changing code, 
compiling etc. I barely see any difference between 500ms to 
1000ms.

Matheus.

PS: I'm ESL please if anything sound rough, forgive me! I'm just 
sharing a thought.