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wool_gather | 5 years ago

That comes with its own tradeoffs: increased compile time and more effort needed to create error messages that are helpful to the user.

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GeorgeWBasic|5 years ago

Ocaml is probably the fastest compiling language I've ever used.

jgwil2|5 years ago

> more effort needed to create error messages that are helpful to the user.

Well, sure, but that's a tradeoff for the developers of the language to consider. As a user, there are already plenty of statically typed languages to choose from with many person-hours put into just that.

erik_seaberg|5 years ago

I want to offload as much work as we possibly can to the compiler. My brain will always be millions of times slower.