It doesn’t have to be like this though. Jonathon Blow’s new game compiles at a crazy speed, like under 5s IIRC.

Afaik those speeds are only unoptimized non-llvm builds, and the things that make rust compile times slow are llvm and things Jai doesn't do like traits and monomorphization

	▲	pjmlp 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		D and Delphi do generics and monomorphization. D goes further as it actually has compile time reflection and C++ style templates, even if ldc is slower than dmd, it remains quite fast.