I've been doing some research in this area: for day-to-day, quick and dirty, scripting purposes, if not Python, then what? I want something expressive: Python

I've been doing some research in this area: for day-to-day, quick and dirty, scripting purposes, if not Python, then what? I want something expressive: Python can be a bit verbose by default and isn't very good at oneliners. I want something that starts up fast, but can run a bit slower. It would be great if it had a REPL, but if compilation and/or startup are fast enough its lack would also be acceptable. The amount of available libraries is not that important, but at least https client, json and csv parsers, are a must. I considered: V, Nim, Clojure, Scala 2, Scala 3, GNU Smalltalk, Rust, Zig, Clojure, Racket, Emacs Lisp, Raku, Ruby, OCaml, and LiveScript. I don't have the time right now for a full write-up, but in terms of expressiveness and for scripting on the command line, LiveScript[1] won; in terms of general scripting (10-20 loc) Emacs Lisp won (I use Emacs, and the IDE-level support for Elisp there is outstanding). Raku and Ruby were runner ups in both categories. The expressiveness of Elisp - with some extensions I made to the interpreter and a bunch of libraries I already have installed (dash, s, f, ht) - was the biggest surprise. It was on par with LiveScript, which has a lot of specialized syntax. The problem with LiveScript is that it's not very actively maintained, but it's still one of the most expressive languages I know of, and running on Node makes it quite fast and gives it access to all of NPM. I didn't consider Haskell, because I don't know it well enough. The rest of the languages were either significantly more verbose, had unacceptable startup time, required a lot of extensions and libraries to get the expressiveness level I wanted, or had a bit too few libraries available. [1] https://livescript.net/ https://livescript.net/ + https://preludels.com/ https://preludels.com/