I think this is an interesting argument for something like scheme (r5rs or r7rs-small) where you could hypothetically implement an interpreter later for the sam

I think this is an interesting argument for something like scheme (r5rs or r7rs-small) where you could hypothetically implement an interpreter later for the same code base with much less trouble. Mind you, it probably won't perform well or do everything, but you can imagine it'd be easier than implementing an entire VM. Unless it's video games. People will write mountains of software to play an old video game.