David Bolton Strikes Again

I’m not going to make the same argument for background compilation that Jeff Atwood made again, but I thoroughly agree. If Eclipse didn’t have incremental compilation I do believe I would have gone crazy by now.

In the same way, since working with Ruby on a daily basis, I’ve also found continuous local testing (via autotest in ZenTest) to be invaluable.

Now I know the instant code changes break my tests. This is particularly important with a dynamic language that doesn’t compile.