Why is Unity the most popular engine?

Salutations SPTX,

Regarding compilers and visual studio:

You’re almost always going to feel the difference in compilation times.
It’s a matter of C++ vs C# and how each engine is using them.
Neither is necessarily better than the other.
Certainly intellisense and re-compile is often faster in Unity, but at the cost of a lot of the power and safety Unreal provides.