> The whole process end to end may take longer for sure (ignoring things like the compiler catching more errors, that's really hard to factor in) but how does that correlate to more tokens?
This. rust emits more information both in its output and the syntax itself more complicated requires more tokens.
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The cost of verbose compiler output surely cannot compare to the cost of shipping bugs that would've been caught at build time.
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