But, it doesn’t need to be so. Go is pretty fast to compile. So is Jai, from what I’ve seen. So was TurboPascal. Rust has a similar problem to the one Vite has been solving- Rust (and most languages) weren’t designed for compilation speed, and it’s hard to retroactively fix that. But, there’s no reason we shouldn’t have a bunch of statically typed, fast-to-compile languages.

I agree with your remark, only that Rust's current problem is tooling, not the language itself.

See OCaml or Haskell, they also have interpreters and REPLs as part of their tooling.

Also there should be no need to always compile crates from scratch when starting a new project.

Which ironically circles back to your remark of having a similar problem.