This is a curious piece of writing, but not for the reason you might think. Some irrelevant webshit piece of code changing languages is beyond my concern, but what caught my eye was this:
The important metric: how long does your entire development feedback cycle take, and what portion of that time is spent waiting on your compiler?
Now, all of the sudden, compile time has become an important metric because the consequences of it is now quite tangible, resulting directly in your Claude account being drained. When it was just human time, this hardly mattered to most, even though human time should be more valuable than that of machine.
Which again forces me to a conclusion that most tech people completely suck at estimating costs of literally anything, unless slammed with a number in the face, and lack mental capacity for predicting second or third order effects of their actions. Quite an important lesson here, boys and girls.
Link: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html
The important metric: how long does your entire development feedback cycle take, and what portion of that time is spent waiting on your compiler?
Now, all of the sudden, compile time has become an important metric because the consequences of it is now quite tangible, resulting directly in your Claude account being drained. When it was just human time, this hardly mattered to most, even though human time should be more valuable than that of machine.
Which again forces me to a conclusion that most tech people completely suck at estimating costs of literally anything, unless slammed with a number in the face, and lack mental capacity for predicting second or third order effects of their actions. Quite an important lesson here, boys and girls.
Link: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html
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