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That looks very promising. Imagine development speed based on that and for Zig and 1. static analysis, 2. dynamic analysis, 3. debugging/introspection tooling (code reduction, io-substitution), 4. backend experimentation.

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It reminds me of the speed of the Turbo Pascal IDE 30+ years ago. Compilation was virtually instant, my young self wasn’t even aware it was happening.

Yes, it is quite surprising the way things turned out with scripting languages, and people used to large C and C++ codebases, that folks lost track of how it used to be.

By the way Delphi, FreePascal, D are just as fast still.

Are you sure it's not just your memories of younger/happier times? I'm still using Borland Turbo C from time to time on my 486 machine and the compilation is so painfully slow even for smaller projects. Typing on the other hand and UI in general is blazingly fast.

I don’t think so: https://prog21.dadgum.com/47.html

Turbo c was slow, Turbo Pascal and later object pascal were (and are) very fast.

Turbo C was an attempt to profit off the reputation of Turbo Pascal.

BTW Borland didn't create the compiler, instead licensed the technology from Poly Data.

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