Why you need to reduce the time spent waiting for your code to compile

Steven Lemon
Nov 6 · 6 min read
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As developers, one of our primary tasks is waiting. We wait for our code to compile, our tests to run, to verify our work, we wait for our application to deploy and load, and to navigate to the page we are changing.

I have joined many teams that were either stuck with or content with a lot of waiting. Often, I found that these wait times very…

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