On: Goodbye C++, Hello C

[munificent]

Just like nature abhors a vacuum, my experience is that regardless of how fast your compiler is, user programs will grow to until they reach a point where they are annoyingly slow to compile.

[mpweiher → munificent]

Solution: drastically lower your annoyance threshold. You'll be more grumpy but much more productive.

I get antsy when my test suite takes more than a second or so.