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parshua | 5 years ago

Rust is a compiled language, so you will have to recompile. Incremental compilation helps to a certain degree. There is IDE tooling that helps with a lot of issues you may encounter, but in the end, you still have to recompile to run your code. Same applies to Go as well. I have never find this a shortcoming of any language, but YMMV.

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pwm|5 years ago

> Rust is a compiled language

So is Haskell. What I'm saying is that in 2020 the dev workflow is not: code, compile, run, repeat. Thanks to modern tooling it is now a near-instant feedback loop of: code, red wiggly line(s), fix, repeat. Ie. real-time conversation with the compiler.

steveklabnik|5 years ago

rust-analyzer brings this to the table, but it's a pretty recent development. The RLS existed for a while before that, and gave a basic version of this story, but it was much slower.