Wow the zig compiler is... slow?

· Samuel Hautamäki's blog.


Don't get me wrong I think this is a very interesting language, I have this codebase of 1707 lines of Zig.

It takes a... while to compile my chess engine project.

140 seconds.

Seriously, and there is only a (not even working) move generation, and attack tables using plain magic bitboards for rook and bishop. 140 seconds.