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In fact Turbo Pascal (and later TurboC) was so fast that initially I thought there was something wrong with the compiler, that's how quick it compiled a program. CTRL-F9 and off to the races.

And it also did a very cool thing, break on first error.

No need for compiler vomit caused by a single error.

It fits on having a var : type syntax, naturally it isn't Turbo Pascal 6.0 with the Turbo Vision IDE, given 1992.

I still hope that alternative backends like Cranelift will fix the compilation speed.

Rust isn't fast? O_O . The others I can see...

Turbo Pascal was famous for compiling projects quickly. The current rustc compiler is not. The output of the rustc compiler can be better optimized for run time than the output of Turbo Pascal, though.

Yes, the compilation speed wasn't something I had on mind when I made the remark, maybe I should have abstained to play clever.

Anyway maybe when Cranelift gets more mature.