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by pjmlp 884 days ago
Except the little detail that JIT/AOT toolchains still aren't as widespread as they should be, with several languages offering only one variant, and there as still quite a few Lisp tricks either left behind in modern IDEs, or with various kinds of support depending on the language, like accessing everything across language and runtime, hot code reloading, time travel debugging.

Ah, and most relevant, many folks still believe that writing OSes in what was once a macro Assember for PDP-11 is the only way.