I remember I would spend hours looking at my code change because it would take hours to days to build what I was working on. I would build small examples to test and debug. I was shocked at Netscape with the amazing build system they had that could continuously build and tell you within a short few hours if you’ve broken the build on their N platforms they cross compiled to. I was bedazzled when I had IDEs that could tell me whether I had introduced bugs and could do JIT compilation and feedback to me in real time if I had made a mistake and provide inline lints. I was floored when I saw what amazing things rust was doing in the compiler to make my code awesome and how incredibly fast it builds. But what really amazed me more than anything was realizing how unhappy folks were that it took 30 seconds to build their code. :-)

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