75 minutes to 10 seconds is no joke in terms of speedups. Imagine that this time is saved for a small team of 4? 10? people who can then inspect/qa/iterate on the build in a PR-preview staging environment. Imagine this kind of time saving across many teams at Shopify’s scale.
Imagine that your pushes to production can happen an hour faster. At Shopify’s scale.
That's not the point. It has value, but it's in comparison to rewriting the actual codebase in an actually appropriate language rather than fixing tooling for a language that was a mistake to use in the first place
Imagine that your pushes to production can happen an hour faster. At Shopify’s scale.
Do you see the pure economic value?