> From a compiler's perspective, sure. Not being a compiler, I find that metric not very relevant.
I'm afraid you're just showing a bit if survivorship bias. I can assure you that compilation speed is a critical trait of any programming language, and the only people who don't understand this are those who benefit from all the work invested by predecessors who did.
Think about it for a moment: how would your turnaround speed be if every single time you had to build your project to test a change you had to brace yourself to wait over one hour to get things to work? After a week of enduring that workflow, how much would you be willing to pay to drive down that build time to 10 minutes, and how much more would you fork to only require 1 minute to pull off an end-to-end build?
Compilation speed can be an important trait of a programming language (or more precisely, a dev env / buildchain). I remember writing code in M68000 assembly, the compile step was lightning fast because you didn't need one. I do also remember going near cross-eyed tracing code flow down narrow columns of vaguely varied yet similar-looking statements -- hours upon hours!
If your daily task build is taking over an hour on modern hardware, it's likely you have organizational problems masquerading as tech debt. No language choice will prevent that; good technical leadership can help mitigate it.
I'm afraid you're just showing a bit if survivorship bias. I can assure you that compilation speed is a critical trait of any programming language, and the only people who don't understand this are those who benefit from all the work invested by predecessors who did.
Think about it for a moment: how would your turnaround speed be if every single time you had to build your project to test a change you had to brace yourself to wait over one hour to get things to work? After a week of enduring that workflow, how much would you be willing to pay to drive down that build time to 10 minutes, and how much more would you fork to only require 1 minute to pull off an end-to-end build?