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I used Chez Scheme for many years and loved its lightning fast compile times. For example, I'm not aware of any other full-scale compiler that can compile itself as fast as Chez can.

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OberonSystem can build the whole compiler, OS, and applications in around 3 seconds.

>OberonSystem can build the whole compiler, OS, and applications in around 3 seconds.

I'm not usually given to short, low-content comments here on HN, but:

wow!

Staying on the low-content theme . . . that's just how awesome Wirth et al are.

Fast compile times are cool, but I've never heard anyone say they liked programming in a language that Wirth created. The possible exception is Delphi as a Pascal derivative, but that has very little to do with wanting to program in Pascal.

Pascal was the language of choice for Windows development for quite some time even before Delphi.

Also, for what it's worth, Ada has quite a few Wirthisms and I personally quite enjoy it. But it technically isn't a Wirth language.

I look forward to the day someone takes the effort of writing a bare metal runtime for Go and producing something like "Goberon", given the influence.

This is pretty close: https://github.com/deferpanic/gorump

A step on the right direction, but I was thinking more about Oberon System 3 with its Gadgets UI framework.

Why? Go is a terrible language with a terrible community.

I think we got plan9 down to about 45 seconds, all os and userspace

That's a myth. Show the evidence please.

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