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what about kotlin native https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html ?

Kotlinc takes 10 seconds to compile Hello World, 30 seconds with wasm target. Seems almost conceptually unfixable.

swiftc isn't also not that blazing fast.

For me Delphi, .NET Native, D are some of the targets to beat in compilation time.

They all share a common trait though, not built on top of LLVM.

I would say Rust is a better point of comparison for Swift given the emphasis both languages have on strong type systems and static analysis. Neither one is super fast, but 10 seconds for a hello world is insanely slow.

And both are slowed down by LLVM.

F#, Standard ML, OCaml and Haskell also have such strong type systems.

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