That is largely a C issue, Delphi 2 for example can compile a simple text editor application in about a second on a Pentium at ~166Mhz :-P. Though for modern h

That is largely a C issue, Delphi 2 for example can compile a simple text editor application in about a second on a Pentium at ~166Mhz :-P. Though for modern hardware there is Tiny C Compiler [0] which actually can be used as a "C scripting language" - AFAIK you can even embed it in applications for such use. Also TCCBOOT [1] was made in 2004 with TCC that compiles and boots Linux on a Pentium 4 in 15 seconds, so there is that. [0] https://bellard.org/tcc/ https://bellard.org/tcc/ [1] https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html https://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html