Post #4114780

There's still this long running myth that Haskell is slow to compile because of fancy types. Haskell _is_ slow to compile but that's because it generates gigabytes of IR. Don't believe me? Monitor your tmp folder during a compile cycle. Still don't believe me? Have GHC do a dry run. This has unfortunately lead to a ton of languages that proclaim fast compile times because of "simple" types which is at best a correlation when the real lesson is to keep generated code as tight as possible.