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by Liber-Abaci 2638 days ago
Yes that technology is called Common Lisp. You hack together whatever you want at the highest possible abstraction level, pluck out just what you changed, and play with it by hand to test it. No writing tests, no types, no complex syntax to learn, no limits on macros hackery, no guarantees anything will work either but you're likely just doing it for a hobby and not in a highly complex professional setting. I would imagine professional musicians also feel like they're doing too much tuning and not enough playing because it's work, and most of the material out there for programming is for/by people in the professional industry which is probably why you don't like it just like you wouldn't want to read professional music theory journals or studio engineering documentation.