I work on large c++ code bases day in day out - think 30 minute compiles on an i9 with 128GB ram and NVMe drives.
Rusts compile times are still ungodly slow. I contributed to a “small to medium” open source project [0] a while back, fixing a few issues that we came across when using it. Given that the project is approximately 3 orders of magnitude smaller than my day to day project, a clean build of a few thousand lines of rust took close to 10 minutes. Incremental changes to the project were still closer to a minute at the time. I’ve never worked on a 5m+ LOC project in rust, but I can only imagine how long it would take.
On the flip side, I also submitted some patches to a golang program of a similar size [1] and it was faster to clone, install dependencies and clean build that project than a single file change to the rust project was.
Rusts compile times are still ungodly slow. I contributed to a “small to medium” open source project [0] a while back, fixing a few issues that we came across when using it. Given that the project is approximately 3 orders of magnitude smaller than my day to day project, a clean build of a few thousand lines of rust took close to 10 minutes. Incremental changes to the project were still closer to a minute at the time. I’ve never worked on a 5m+ LOC project in rust, but I can only imagine how long it would take.
On the flip side, I also submitted some patches to a golang program of a similar size [1] and it was faster to clone, install dependencies and clean build that project than a single file change to the rust project was.
[0] https://github.com/getsentry/symbolicator
[1] https://github.com/buildkite/agent