# The Rust Compilation Model Calamity ## Or, Rust Compile-time Adventures with TiKV: Part 1    The Rust programming language was designed for slow compilation times. I was there. I witnessed it for myself, and I am finally ready to break the silence: Rust is a hoax. It's a prank the language designers played on you, the Rust user — adopt this high-performance, high-reliability language for your products, and we'll re