The Rust compiler isn't slow; we are
I seriously hope the Rust community won&#x27;t get used to these slow compile times the way the C++ community got used to it. C++ has some really big flaws that can cause compilation time to become unbearable but for some reason boost really loves to abuse these flawed features. Boost is almost as bad as npm. You include a single header and then you end up including thousands of other boost headers. When I looked at the include hierarchy of a single cpp file 99% of the includes were from boost and maybe 30 includes were actually from the C++ project itself. I&#x27;m sure you could cut down 80% of the compilation time simply by removing boost and replacing it with different libraries.<p>I even found a reddit submission that shows how absurd boost is: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;cpp_questions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2hzobl&#x2F;reducing_compile_time_should_i_drop_boost&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;cpp_questions&#x2F;comments&#x2F;2hzobl&#x2F;reduc...</a>