Comment by MeetingsBrowser

Perfect is the enemy of good, and Rust's compile times are good enough.

When choosing between languages, compile times should be a tie-breaker at most. If Rust had focused on super fast compilation from the start, it probably would have slowed developing the features that actually made it successful.

Its like a startup that spends forever building the perfect scalable backend instead of just solving customer problems. The hacky solution usually wins.

> Is there anyone out there who has tried to fork the rust ecosystem ... I have a feeling that such an effort ... would actually take off and be able to replace the current ecosystem relatively quickly

Forking the entire Rust ecosystem seems pretty unlikely to work, but everything's open source so anyone can give it a shot.