Four tradeoffs of fast Rust dev loops: stateful daemons, language subsets, skipped checks, slower runtime

charliermarsh · x · 2026-10-21

Charlie Marsh summarizes the common tradeoffs of these fast-compile projects: they can greatly speed up the development loop, but may require a stateful daemon, support only a subset of Rust, skip borrow-checking or type-checking to just emit code, and generate slower code at runtime.

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