This ends up often being my main contention with Rust, when making useful programs it often leads to large compile times mostly due to the linker. The mold linker can help greatly, but it's still not a great developer experience. Something I want to create in the future is a fully compiled Tauri application except it takes the webview sources at runtime, allowing a fast-as-possible development reload as long as you are only touching the frontend application and not the Rust side. On the Rust side there are a few options, one of them being developing something like WASM plugins on the backend where their individual dependencies are much less than a full application.
This ends up often being my main contention with Rust, when making useful programs it often leads to large compile times mostly due to the linker. The mold linker can help greatly, but it's still not a great developer experience. Something I want to create in the future is a fully compiled Tauri application except it takes the webview sources at runtime, allowing a fast-as-possible development reload as long as you are only touching the frontend application and not the Rust side. On the Rust side there are a few options, one of them being developing something like WASM plugins on the backend where their individual dependencies are much less than a full application.