Re:Still in love with Rust
by jerrre on Thursday November 22, 2018 @04:02AM
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Like the others say: depends. But wasn’t saying C++ compiles faster, just that I know from experience that anything over a couple of seconds can ruin your flow.
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No shit, I recently restarted a project [0] in straight C after giving it a serious try in C++. It's been a while since I dipped my toes, but a couple of weeks of decoding screens upon screens of template instantiations for every single compilation error and waiting minutes for a fresh build brings back memories. I'm not touching that madness with a ten foot pole again, they have some kind of crazy cult thing going where everyone agreed to pretend it's all good. Compiling the same thing in C is instant, I don't even want to think about how much time I wasted.
Well, if you can't even call a range (seconds, minutes, hours) then I can say that Rust is more predictable at least :)
Couple of seconds for 45k lines - I think you are too demanding :) But if C++ can compile it in couple of seconds - great, good competition for Rust :)