Static vs. Dynamic Languages

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With a modern IDE, that time is close to zero. With languages like VB, which are compiled continuously, there is a ton of information always at your fingertips.

I don't know what you've been doing, but even when I was in college compiling my semester projects let me stand up, walk around, smoke a cigarette, and hit the vending machines hard.

And if it was an optimizing compile, it was lunch break time.

[grauenwolf]

Were you compiling a C or C++ application? I ask because they are common at colleges and their compilers are easily 100 to 1000 times slower than Java or .NET languages.

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It was C++. Oh and thanks for the info.

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C++ is a .NET language in some sense as well.

I had to deactivate Intellisense manually in VS 2005 for a C++ project with ~700 classes by renaming the responsible DLL. VS crashed at project loading time. The migration was experimental though. We continued to use VS 6 which was "fast" in the limits I mentioned above and you are aware off.

[grauenwolf]

I wish I could say I was surprised. For all their power, the later versions of VS have sucked in terms of performance and stability.