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Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

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302 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 26 Jun 25 19:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
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charcircuit ◴[26 Jun 25 20:31 UTC] No.44391019[source]▶
Why doesn't the Rust ecosystem optimize around compile time? It seems a lot of these frameworks and libraries encourage doing things which are slow to compile.
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1. steveklabnik ◴[26 Jun 25 20:33 UTC] No.44391028[source]▶
The ecosystem is vast, and different people have different priorities. Simple as that.