alt Hacker News> Their "build server" ran overnight, you'd check in your code in the late afternoon and get your compile errors back in the morning.
This. Let's keep things in perspective when people complain about long Rust compile cycles. And even that's a whole lot better than filling in paper-based FORTRAN or COBOL coding forms to be punched into cards in the computing room and getting back line-printed program output (or a compiler error) the next week.
Rust's notorious compile times sticks out like a sore thumb partly because other system languages can run laps before your Rust build is done. And also because everyone and their grandma swears Rust is blazing fast.
Until you have to compile the program without prior build cache or start a build in a CI pipeline.