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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by EdiX on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:52AM (#4875272)
> Why then does every nontrivial C or C++ code base I've ever worked on take 5 or 20 or 60 minutes to compile then?

Because if you have a global.h file that 100 c files include said global.h will be tokenized, parsed and compiled 100 times, even with ifndef guards optimizations working. Along with everything global.h itself may happen to include.

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Re:Go at Google: Language Design in the Service of Software ... by chubot on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @03:25AM (#4875436)
Yup, so then I think the advantage of Go is real (contradicting the OP). I mean it's not really something that's so awesome or innovative about Go -- it's just that C and C++ are so unbelievably backward in this regard.

On the HN and reddit threads about the proposed C++ module system a couple weeks ago, everyone said "this needed to happen 20 years ago", and that was absolutely true.

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