I think that part of “compile times suck” is that, when we are learning, we are building extremely small programs. Hundreds of lines at the very top end. During this phase of our personal development, we build a habit of writing a line of code, then compiling. Then changing an index, then compiling. Then realize we use a wrong variable, then compile. Then <some other minor thing> then compile.
Somewhere along the way, we get to needing to build thousands or hundreds of thousands of lines, and there’s very frequently no build up to this so our habit of making very minor change and then making the compiler tell us what’s wrong hurts.
I think that part of “compile times suck” is that, when we are learning, we are building extremely small programs. Hundreds of lines at the very top end. During this phase of our personal development, we build a habit of writing a line of code, then compiling. Then changing an index, then compiling. Then realize we use a wrong variable, then compile. Then <some other minor thing> then compile.
Somewhere along the way, we get to needing to build thousands or hundreds of thousands of lines, and there’s very frequently no build up to this so our habit of making very minor change and then making the compiler tell us what’s wrong hurts.