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Re:The Go Compiler Needs to Be Smarter by onei on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:49AM (#23426712)
Realistically, compilation speed is something every major language is going to try to improve upon to improve adoption.

I haven't looked at the internals of the go compiler, but it seems a bit simplistic perhaps in the interest of improving speed. For example, it stops outputting errors after a point when it can clearly go further after having demonstrated that it's parser can recover. The error messages have lots of room for improvement, particularly compared to Rust.

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Re:The Go Compiler Needs to Be Smarter by ldeangelis on Friday June 05, 2020 @06:06AM (#23426815)
I think one of the pain points that Go addresses is the compilation speed of large C++ projects at Google, and it's one of the reasons it was made in the first place. From what I know C++ and Rust are in the same ballpark in terms of compilation speed, while Go gives a noticeable improvement.
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