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Zig builds are getting faster

Mitchell Hashimoto Zig Builds Are Getting Faster Andrew Kelley famously (or infamously, depending on your views) said "the compiler is too damn slow, that's why we have bugs."1 As a result, one of the primary stated goals of Zig for years has been faster compile times. The Zig team has been working on extremely hard problems to make this a reality (such as yeeting LLVM, writing their own code generation backends, building their own linkers, and marching towards incremental compilation in general).2 The fruits of this multi-year labor are finally starting to show with Zig 0.15.1.

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