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		efnx on June 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly There’s a lot happening at compile time that less safe languages don’t do. Type checking and type erasure, etc

int_19h on June 30, 2020 | [–]

As the article explains, this all is a relatively minor contribution to compile times.

pjmlp on June 30, 2020 | | [–]

Ada/SPARK does it.

verdagon on June 30, 2020 | [–]

IIRC, languages like Java and Go compile quite fast, and they are even safer than Rust...

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