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Re:Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles? by sjmulder on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @04:16PM (#14206568)
In general I find that C# builds are fairly quick. Nonetheless Ruby is a pleasure to work with.

As for other interpreted languages, JavaScript is a mixed bag. The Webpack/Babel stack can be smooth if hot reloading and such are set up well and work correctly, but things can quickly turn sour when other backend languages are involved with server side rendering and such.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles? by flukus on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @08:54PM (#14208341)
I see you've never worked with mister "creates a project for every class" or any of his friends. C# compiles quickly, but MS build is very slow and it's noticeable when there are a lot of projects.

Just for fun, try compile with csc directly one day, it's an order of magnitude (at least) faster than with msbuild.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles? by sjmulder on Thursday April 27, 2017 @04:02PM (#14214248)
Perhaps I'll try your suggestion and compare make against msbuild...
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Re:Ask HN: What do you do while your code compiles? by flukus on Thursday April 27, 2017 @09:29PM (#14216264)
It's much faster (http://flukus.github.io/2016/11/30/2016_11_30_Rediscovering-...), so is nant or just about any build tool. The problem is visual studio (and other developers) only know about .csproj files.
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