Nobody ever claimed Go was the first language with a fast compiler, it was simply claimed that it builds much faster than C++ and Java. There are compilers fas

Nobody ever claimed Go was the first language with a fast compiler, it was simply claimed that it builds much faster than C++ and Java. There are compilers faster than the Go compilers in terms of lines compiled per second. Even Python parses code faster than the Go compiler, however, Go builds large, real life projects, faster because it is the only implementation that scales linearly with the number of components, other scale O(n^2) Turbo Pascal, Modula, and Ada, which you bring into discussion may have had fast compilers, but the build process was still O(n^2), not O(n).