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LLVM will save us.
Maybe...
LLVM is ironically a very slow compiler back-end, whose popularity has contributed to a general slow-down in compilation speed across the whole industry (it's even slow at doing debug builds for fast iteration).
WASM has some promise though
Doesn't really matter if the compiler is slow if the result is optimized and fast 🤷 Rust compiles slower than C, but that's because C has no safeguards (excluding static typing). Very often the wasted CPU cycles are on the end of the user, not the developer.