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1a527dd5today at 12:47 PM1 replyview on HN

This is what I like to call performative performance programming. I _LOVE_ performance as much as the next guy. And build times should be as close to 0 seconds as possible.

But this is approaching diminishing returns and I guarantee that your CURRENT bottleneck is not build times.


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kristoff_ittoday at 12:56 PM

The people who originally worked on Bun themselves would disagree with your point (but their situation was based on the premise that they did not take the steps required to leverage incremental compilation): https://zackoverflow.dev/writing/i-spent-181-minutes-waiting...

And, unrelated to Bun, I too would disagree. You don't want to have to wait minutes for a build to complete before you can run the test suite, or even just know if there was a semantic error in your code. Build times are 100% a bottle neck for big-enough projects.

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