I mean, of course, I also like short compile times... but since when are they considered a serious cost? What are we talking about? Seconds? Minutes? Hours?

Are you using your compiler as a syntax checker? Always compiling everything all the time?

Especially since you compile once, what you run a million times and now that everyone is running around with what would have been considered a supercomputer decades ago in their backpack, and a half in their pocket.

Of course I think stuff should compile fast (that's why we use Make, CMake, ninja, etc.) but I would never chose C over C++ because of compile times... Code that requires high mental load and solving the same stupid things again, and again, and again... still costs more time than my compiler can get me back IMO.