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That's definitely not true for:

- Most C++ or Rust projects

- Medium size or larger C projects

- Anything which is built with tools written in JavaScript (due to Node startup time overhead)

Stuff where a full build is close enough to instant:

- Most Java, C#, Go projects

- Small C projects

- Tiny/trivial C++ or Rust programs, or C++ programs written for embedded systems

This is just my experience. YMMV.




any sizeable rust or c++ project is gonna take a while to compile in my experience? I tend to break things off into libraries that are faster to compile. Some of my coworkers don't like it but they learn to deal (c++)


> I tend to break things off into libraries that are faster to compile.

Yes, exactly. Incremental compilation! This is what Make is not good at.




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