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What if we tried designing C a second time?
(lemmy.ml)
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Do you think the same project, but written in Go, would compile be significantly faster and if so, why can't the compiler for the Android project achieve a similar speed?
Edit: added "compile", as that's what I meant.
I 100% think it would. Android Studio is hot garbage. Not just the compiler, but the whole build process.
Gradle configuration syncing takes over a minute for the most minor of changes when building a project. Importing a new package in Go takes less than a second in most cases.
Changing a version of any imported package in Android Studio has a 50-50 chance of breaking everything. Heck, even creating a new project in Android Studio has a 50-50 chance of working.
The reasons why Android Studio can't achieve similar speeds are plenty, but here are some:
Those are fair points about Android Studio - I've never used it, or made apps, and was thinking simply that the compiler wouldn't make much of a difference in a large project; hadn't considered all the environmental disaster about Java and Android development.