Factor addresses some of these concerns and instead of giving you a bare metal REPL you get a Smalltalk-like image: https://factorcode.org/

It's rather neat.

I was just looking at Factor yesterday. I find it cool that it was originally created as a scripting language for a game engine.

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		It's great fun. The environment is pretty mature by now and for being a niche language there's lots of public code to study. I'm not sure but I think John Benediktsson is still the maintainer, and at least a few years ago he was active in their Discord server. His blog is a very good resource. Some people are doing AoC:s in Factor, also worth a look. https://re.factorcode.org/ https://github.com/gifti258/aoc-factor