Long Build Times

7/10 High

Build time remains a significant pain point for C++ developers, with 43% reporting it as a major issue. Multiple systemic reasons contribute to slow builds, though there is a slight downward trend indicating some ecosystem improvement.

C++CMake
Category
build
Workaround
partial
Stage
build
Freshness
worsening
Scope
language
Upstream
stale
Recurring
Yes
Buyer Type
team

Sources

Collection History

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Swift for developers in 2025?”4/4/2026

I'm sure I could think of a list of annoyances about Swift as a language but I can't think of a single annoyance about the language that harms my productivity more than what Steve mentioned a few posts up…the compiler speed and Xcode performance. Yes, I know Xcode isn't Swift and so I guess this is off topic, but honestly most people write Swift code in Xcode and the developer experience has got steadily worse over recent years.

Query: “What are the most common pain points with Vite for developers in 2025?”4/4/2026

Developers working on large projects have experienced painfully slow dev server startups... It is not uncommon for large scale projects to contain thousands of modules. We are starting to hit a performance bottleneck for JavaScript based tooling: it can often take an unreasonably long wait (sometimes up to minutes!) to spin up a dev server

Query: “What are the most common pain points with C++ for developers in 2025?”4/4/2026

From about 1700 results, 43.34% considered this as major pain, 37.56% as minor pain, and 19.10% as not a significant issue.

Created: 4/4/2026Updated: 4/4/2026