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by throwaway17_17 2348 days ago
The following is not a particularly deep thought, and that is why it is stated simply:

The way to maintain the easy abstractions, or even increase the level of abstraction while still increasing performance is to ditch the proliferation of massive general purpose programming languages and adopt specific DSLs that fit the problem domain. I feel like the language-oriented programming paradigm that Felliesen of Racket champions is certainly in this spirit, but I would like to see a language core that is specifically tailored to performance concerns.

Not that this is important to the general concept, but this is the current focus of my language design efforts, hoping for first public showing in April 2020,