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Long compile times with Rust don't really bother me that much. If it's someone else's program that I just want to build and run for myself, the one-time hit of building it isn't a big deal. I can be patient.

If it's something I'm actively developing, the compile is incremental, so it doesn't take that long.

What does often take longer than I'd like is linking. I need to look into those tricks where you build all the infrequently-changing bits (like third-party dependent crates) into a shared library, and then linking is very quick. For debug builds, this could speed up my development cycle quite a bit.



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