I have first hand experience of painfully slow C# compile times. Sprinkle in a few extra slow things like EDMX generated files (not C# but part of the MS ecosystem) and it has no business being in a list of fast compiling languages.
> ...I keep trying because I'm hoping theres patterns I don't see.
Python's popularity is an accident of timing. If you're digging deep for wisdom and gold nuggets you're not going to find any. The gold of python is the surface level stuff. Easy to type for hunt-n-pec typers. Press tab to indent is easier than {}.
That's all it took for an army of noobs who wanted to be "hackers" to choose Python. Then they grew up, got real jobs and brought Python with them.
It's not literally the age that's the issue, it's just a correlation. Some employers want people they can squeeze more easily and get the most juice out of.
Younger people are more likely to accept orders without push back. Accept lower pay. Work 60+ hr/week for crunch time, etc.
Depends on the employer of course. Google employs an 80+ year old Ken Thompson.
That's sort of the problem with C#. It couples the type (struct vs class) with allocation. C# started life by copying 1990's Java "everything-is-a-reference". So it's in a weird place where things were bolted on later to give more control but still needs to support the all-objects-are-refs style. C# is just not ergonomic if you need to care about data layout in memory.
Go uses a C-like model. Everything is a value type. Real pointers are in the language. Now you can write a function that inputs pointers and does not care whether they point to stack, heap, or static area. That function can be used for all 3 types, no fuss.
I remember wasteland 2 (from steam/wine) crashing on Linux when you finally entered the rangers headquarters. Luckily a linux kernel developer played the game and figured out what was going on. He told everyone how to fix the game with some arcane commands, increasing max counts, etc. Was pretty wild.
iterm2 has some options to fix key bind issues that hamper emacs in the terminal.