Thread:SamwiseFilmore/@comment-25841881-20171204023045/@comment-25330335-20171207192352

I view compilation as a really helpful step for writing code. It catches a lot of your errors and means that you won't have certain things (syntax errors, for example). And like we've said in Rust, that compiler means that you handle just about every condition before your even execute your code, so you tend to write code that just works.

As per C++, I've compiled the Swift compiler (which is written completely using C++), and it took about 4 hours.