Unrelated to this good work directly, but I experienced a funny moment yesterday. My new employer issued me a 16 inch M1 Pro - naturally, I installed Rust :)

The thing cargo builds (in release, no less) about as fast as my previous machine could npm install on a particular project.

I realize this is all M1 just absolutely chewing through it, but as long as compiler time improvements remain steady and constant I don't think I'll have a ton to complain about.

Tytytyty!!

I know this is not realistic, but the only thing rust is missing is faster compilation times. To be fair, it’s already super fast.

I was adding a repl[1] to create-react-app[2] (trying to achieve something like RoR’s console) and it took way too long for it to boot simply because the dependencies for something like a full scale web app take long to compile. Even with incremental compilation, that first boot time was too much.

[1] https://github.com/google/evcxr/blob/main/evcxr_repl

[2] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app

when things are slow, it is easy to show big numbers like that, but in the end it still is VERY slow

No it isn't. It used to be, but Rust compilation is actually fairly fast these days. Definitely faster than C++.

It could still do with being faster but I don't think it's a showstopper anymore.