I disagree that it’s unfair to compare the two. The performance difference between go and rust is far less than the difference between go and python, it has a garbage collector sure but it’s an example of a language designed for fast compilation time that achieves an order of magnitude faster compile times than rust

I think you're missing the point of my comparison. Rust has a lot more going on than Go, so it feels unfair.

Go has a lot less going on than Rust partially because compile times were a priority.

Rust has long compilation times because the borrow checker was a priority.

They're very different languages.

Rust has long compilation times because it doesn't prioritise compilation times.

What does [0] have to do with the borrow checker?

[0] https://www.feldera.com/blog/cutting-down-rust-compile-times...

The borrow checker is a very small factor in rust compile time

You can bring in Ada, Delphi, D, Haskell, OCaml, C++ with modules if you prefer.

If you want languages with similar complexity to Rust, and with fast tooling approaches available to them, instead of the one single compiler.