Why is the Rust compiler so slow?

    andy@bark ~/d/andrewkelley.me (master)> zig build --watch -fincremental
    Build Summary: 3/3 steps succeeded
    install success
    └─ run exe compile success 57ms MaxRSS:3M
       └─ compile exe compile Debug native success 331ms
    Build Summary: 3/3 steps succeeded
    install success
    └─ run exe compile success 56ms MaxRSS:3M
       └─ compile exe compile Debug native success 17ms
    watching 75 directories, 1 processes

Rust is a large and robust language meant for serious systems programming. The scope of problems Rust addresses is large, and Rust seeks to be deployed to very large scale software problems.

These two are not the same and do not merit an apples to apples comparison.

edit: I made some changes to my phrasing. I described Zig as a "toy" language, which wasn't the right wording.

These languages are at different stages of maturity, have different levels of complexity, and have different customers. They shouldn't be measured against each other so superficially.

(EDIT: The parent has since edited this comment to contain more than just "zig bad rust good", but I still think the combative-ness and insulting tone at the time I made this comment isn't cool.)

Respectfully, the parent only offers up a Zig compile time metric. That's it. That's the entire comment.

This HN post about Rust is now being dominated by a cheap shot Zig one liner humblebrag from the lead author of Zig.

I think this thread needs a little more nuance.