The sad thing about it is that people keep on reinventing stuff and selling it to young developers.

For example, Modula-2 and Turbo Pascal compilers were already having Go like compilation speed back in the mid 80s.

Smalltalk and Lisp Machines environments offered features that current IDEs still don't quite achieve, while offering desktop operating systems fully coded in GC enabled languages.

Oberon language family used for doing desktop operating systems in a GC enabled systems programming language, used for several years at Zurich Technical University.

Distributed computing in the early 80s.

And many other things.