> Developers can always get faster or larger machines if they need them.
Those who can get top notch hardware are already on top notch hardware and those who can't are limited by management decisions.
Even with top notch machines, compile times matter. Because the difference are huge in compile times of C++ and Go in moderately complex projects with bad build systems that are the norm.
> What matters is how the final product performs on customer machines.
Apparently today's developers value fast iteration speed and that's fine. The problem is they don't value user resources because they have top notch machines and don't care about performance.
