The next major release of GCC will have a Modula-2 frontend. I look forward to trying that out.

edit - Apparently it was released yesterday?

Yeah, now it only needs a VSCode plugin that does auto-formating (no need to explicitly type keywords in uppercase), and maybe some package management of sorts.

I have very fond memories of Modula-2. I hacked a lot of cool stuff with it (also with inline assembler) as a teenager. When I eventually switched to C and C++ because I was curious about learning, the overall experience was much worse due to the build system and much slower compile times. We were talking orders of magnitude here.