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jimbokun 22 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly...

Maybe overly verbose but makes an important point.

Slow compile times should have been a deal breaker for how they impacted human coders. LLM coding just makes the problem more stark.

andersmurphy 22 days ago [–]

Yeah compile times have always mattered. It's why games often have a scripting layer in lua despite the engines being C/C++.

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