Cognitive load is more expensive than compilation time.

Compilation time turns into cognitive load via frustration. Death by a thousand cuts.

adastra22 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

How long are your compiles? The longest I’ve ever seen is a massive Bevy project with 700 dependencies, and it still compiled in <5min from an empty cache, and then 2-3 second incremental builds (mostly link time).

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dijksterhuis 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://xkcd.com/303/

(compilation time is good for brain switch off time - i.e. reducing cognitive load).

	▲	echelon 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I find it's great for letting ADHD take over steering the ship and losing total focus on what needs to be done. Which is more or less what this XKCD encapsulates.