How to Survive Your Project's First 100k Lines
> Use a language with good compile speeds.<p>This is an interesting suggestion to me. Honestly, I consider a lot of other things like type safety and ergonomics of the language before I think about compile speed if at all.<p>However, that's not to say it's irrelevant. Perhaps I should be thinking about it more. I did notice that they didn't suggest any particular language with this comment. Compile speed seems like a difficult thing to compare between languages in general, since it would be difficult to make a genuine apples to apples comparison.