> You then have to compile, restart your program, rebuild the whole rigid structure, and confirm the change works as expected. This whole process can take many minutes.
This is not my experience at all. Virgil is a fully statically-typed language and compiles fast. When working on the Virgil compiler (approximately 50KLOC), my typical workflow is to run the compiler in the interpreter in my debug, edit, run loop. The interpreter can load the entire compiler, typecheck it, and run it with my changes in 90 milliseconds. If we throw a complete optimized compile in the loop, it's 400 milliseconds.
It takes me longer to switch between my two terminal tabs.
It's not static typing versus dynamic typing. It's ridiculously inefficient languages/build systems versus efficient ones.
This is not my experience at all. Virgil is a fully statically-typed language and compiles fast. When working on the Virgil compiler (approximately 50KLOC), my typical workflow is to run the compiler in the interpreter in my debug, edit, run loop. The interpreter can load the entire compiler, typecheck it, and run it with my changes in 90 milliseconds. If we throw a complete optimized compile in the loop, it's 400 milliseconds.
It takes me longer to switch between my two terminal tabs.
It's not static typing versus dynamic typing. It's ridiculously inefficient languages/build systems versus efficient ones.