[mrkgnao]

I'm sadly too young and ignorant of CS/technology history to be well-acquainted with the "old times". (It's something I intend to fix.)

Even so, I'm all for praising the good things that Go does: if nothing, because of the tremendous mindshare it's getting and the number of people it reaches.

[pjmlp]

Codegear has kept some of the Turbo Pascal stuff on their museum site.

For example, Turbo Pascal 5.5 targeting MS-DOS was released in 1989 and was compiling 34,000 lines/minute.

https://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20803

This is just one example, there are plenty of other languages to choose from with a module based compilation model, only C and C++ toolchains have lousy build times given their textual inclusion model.

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/c-compilation-speed/228701711

So the only achievement of Go's compilation speed was making younger generations think it is something extraordinary.