> I have seen Lisp compilers take longer than that just to start the REPL.
Except with Lisp, you aren't starting the REPL potentially every couple minutes. I've worked in many Lisps and it's not uncommon to keep a REPL open for days (recent project had one open for _weeks_)
Back when I worked in C++, compile times drove me crazy. 3 seconds wasn't remotely normal even for tiny projects because there's the overhead of actually starting the compiling process, reading output, thinking about what you saw, repeat.
Compile times in "the minutes" was much more normal.
Except with Lisp, you aren't starting the REPL potentially every couple minutes. I've worked in many Lisps and it's not uncommon to keep a REPL open for days (recent project had one open for _weeks_)
Back when I worked in C++, compile times drove me crazy. 3 seconds wasn't remotely normal even for tiny projects because there's the overhead of actually starting the compiling process, reading output, thinking about what you saw, repeat.
Compile times in "the minutes" was much more normal.