alt Hacker NewsI have no idea about the code quality of Codex CLI, but it takes way way less time to build a full game engine (Bevy).
Stories like this make me think something is wrong with your setup. Do you have Windows Defender or similar enabled on the build directory?
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Weird take. I've worked in large Rust projects for half a decade (in one case, a full blockchain written in Rust). It's slow, full stop. I was under constant pressure to keep CI times down and was resorting to some of the craziest optimizations just to save a few minutes. Meanwhile, all of the platform code I was writing in Go almost never had a CI time above a few minutes.
Doesn't mean one is better than the other, but to find it odd someone had an experience with slow Rust compiliations and then blame it on their setup is a bit odd.
Bevy is intentionally sharded across many crates, is small, and has the dev working on optimised build times.
That isn't "Rust compiles are fast", it's another example of "Rust requires you architect your code a specific way".