On 2023-08-22 13:14:05 +0000, Attila Lendvai wrote:
> > each package for those two to work properly. Also, while having pinned
> > versions of dependencies upstream seems like the consensus, I'm not sure
> > we'd like doing that, be it for the exponential CI work that would be
> > required.
> 
> 
> not arguing either way, FWIW:
> 
> - rumour has it that golang compiles very fast, and

Usually people claiming this assume there is already a compiler cache present.
The compiler heavily caches the work done.

Sure, golang compiles faster than C++ for example, but anecdotal data point: at
$DAYJOB we had to start persisting the compiler cache to make CI fast enough.

> 
> - IIUC currently the go build system in guix does not reuse build artifacts, i.e. it recompiles everything for each leaf package.
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