I know many people who wouldn't necessarily understand that compiled programs tend to be faster, because it just hasn't come up, or because in their domain it's

I know many people who wouldn't necessarily understand that compiled programs tend to be faster, because it just hasn't come up, or because in their domain it's not really important or even clear. If you've been working primarily with Javascript, for example, or even worse, Typescript, the question of "is this thing compiled or interpreted" is "yes". Compilation becomes a piece of either build tooling, where the artifact isn't a concrete binary, or even an attribute of runtime. It really wouldn't be too hard to imagine a shop built on Javascript and Python, where compilation just doesn't factor into the system in a meaningful way.