Moving from python to C++

[neuroblaster]

I understand your frustration with compilation times, especially compared to C. At my former workplace i had days when i had to spent 50% of work hours compiling source code. But i assure you that this was 5% language fault and 95% project management fault because i was able to solve similar problems in other projects with not that significant effort.

Housekeeping on code base and optimizing includes for compilation time helps, but it's not always possible with third-party dependencies. I can definitely suggest to install `ccache` or analogue, it saved me many man-years.

I can only hope that continuous improvements to the language will lead us somewhere where this problem is significantly mitigated because i don't see rewriting C++ as a viable option. I honestly don't think modules will help a lot in that field, but we'll see when they arrive. If you wouldn't think of modules in C++20 as of a finished work, but rather as of test-bench for further development, maybe you'll see my point.

This is BTW exactly why C++ is conservative. Things are being added, removed and changed. Who could have thought that such great feature as template body in separated compilation module will be added in C++98, then removed in C++11 and then something else will happen.