This is not true at all in any of those languages. For example in C, With a good build system setup, modifying just one .c file means only that file needs to be

This is not true at all in any of those languages. For example in C, With a good build system setup, modifying just one .c file means only that file needs to be compiled, then you only need to run the linker. Even if the program is very large and linking everything takes many seconds, breaking up the program into dynamic libraries should get you sub-second compiles.