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Shouldn't the energy labels also account for build times? Surprising to see Rust and C++ occupying top positions, even though they're notorious for slow build times.

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Run time >>> build time

Depends on frequency of updates.

are you building each time you run? maybe while developing, but never in production.

run time is far more important than build time.

Generally you're probably right, but it does depend on how many users you have.

Not speaking from experience, but I'd presume there are quite a few custom software projects that are designed for one single client running on a cluster of handful of machines.

In some cases a build is more expensive than a run.

In those cases, you should probably be using a scripting language instead of a compiled one.

But really, in most cases you aren’t running once per compilation.

even developer incremental builds don't have to be too bad when caching (like with ccache or run-vcpkg on github) and use smaller C files (unless you change some header file which triggers make world).

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