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I am really trying to understand these flow comments that are coming up. Waiting for 4 seconds for tests to run or even a few seconds more just seems like a silly thing to get caught up on. If we are talking minutes than I can see that but single digit seconds?

If you've developed a workflow around the kind of automatic test suites that run on every save to a source file and provide instant feedback, a several second wait would seem to be potentially a significant rhythm break.

Doubly so if that's synchronous (probably the case with vim).

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