I keep harping on Visual Studio, but I learned programming with Borland Turbo Pascal (and later Turbo C/C++) on a 4.77MHz machine with 512k memory. It was orders of magnitude more responsive than VS on my current 16 core 3.5GHz 128GB machine.

The only exceptions are: 1) the actual build, which is faster on the modern machine, but only for a large number of source files and 2) reading and writing files - a floppy disk cannot beat an nvme drive of course.