• ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I kinda love how fast the binaries are. I was timing something I wrote and, as a mostly Python dev, I was so confused when the program was running in the microseconds or something crazy like that and not milliseconds.

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      1 year ago

      Compiled Rust is fast.

      Compiling Rust is slow.

      Also my understanding is that RustAnalyzer has to compile all Rust macros so it can check them properly. That’s not something that a lot of static analysis tools do for things like C++ templates

      • 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Personally I think the “compiling Rust is slow” narrative comes from comparing it against scripting languages like Python. If you compare compiling Rust against compiling C++ code of similar complexity, I think Rust will come out very favorably since C++ templates and headers tend to carry a huge compilation burden.