At our company back in the time we chose to prioritize Delphi as the development language of choice because of compile times (the alternative competing was C++)

At our company back in the time we chose to prioritize Delphi as the development language of choice because of compile times (the alternative competing was C++). Too bad the Delphi team was not able to find a business model that was able to scale their user base (probably some kind of subscription at the price range of JetBrains subscription was needed). Now are now looking back into C++ (and its much longer compile times).