This post is a very short contemplation of Rust compilation (times). Don’t expect anything super insightful, just a bunch of thoughts that came up while I was listening to the Rustacean Station podcast. I’m currently analysing the results of the Rust 2023 annual survey (full results coming Soon™, hopefully sometime in February) and as usually, one of the most common complaints is long compilation time of Rust programs. This is certainly not a surprise, of course, as compilation times are often b...