Ha yes that is a diplomatic way to put it. To the commenter's point though, I too question some of the defaults. mold does seem to be objectively better than the default linker. Stripping debuginfo does seem like it would have been a better default, which is why it was made so recently! Pipelined compilation also falls into this latter category, so perhaps because there is (understandably) just a delay until adoption to stable Rust.
I know you mean it as a figure of speech, but I would consider the complexity (and build time) distribution for Rust to be heavy-tailed and skewed right, more so than a flattened normal.
I know you mean it as a figure of speech, but I would consider the complexity (and build time) distribution for Rust to be heavy-tailed and skewed right, more so than a flattened normal.