>It builds fast, tiny, entirely native apps in less than a second, and is an excellent example of how far Pascal went despite falling off the mainstream wagon.

>It builds fast, tiny, entirely native apps in less than a second, and is an excellent example of how far Pascal went despite falling off the mainstream wagon. D meets some of your criteria too, at least somewhat small fast, native apps. Build speed is decent (or more) too, and it is designed for that - doesn't have C's repeated overhead of pulling in include files. [1] Haven't tried the GUI toolkits for D though (yet). There are some, like DLangUI, GtkD, etc. Not sure if there are any GUI builders like Delphi, Lazarus, VB, Xojo, etc. have. Also, I think I read that D's language design allows D compilers to be the single-pass kind. [1] I think this is the video I had blogged about a while ago, in which Bjarne Stroustrup talks about the details of that include files issue: Video: C++, Rust, D and Go: Panel at LangNext '14 https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-panel-at-langnext.html https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/08/video-c-rust-d-and-go-pa... Edited for wording about D compilers.