> However I'm starting to think that scripting languages are a false economy. There is no intrinsic reason you can't have a concise and easy to use language that can be quickly (in debug mode) compiled to the metal and dynamically linked to the project.

This might interest you:

* https://reader.tymoon.eu/article/413

* https://github.com/Shinmera/talks/blob/master/gic2021-highly...

and the very recent still front-page discussion on hn:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32043026