Certainly, but that depended on your own choices in technologies. This condition is not time-dependent. You can inflict yourself the exact same condition by choosing Rust.
Still, you seem to be arguing that the choice should be Pascal instead of Rust. There is a reason why we choose these new languages: language features. Compile time is a lesser consideration.
Do I mean that one should choose Pascal today? No, compiling C code today is really fast and has practically no "blocking" time. But you can still inflict yourself "blocking" time if you want, with languages like Rust.
Are things clearer now?