For 6502s, Interpreters were much more common, with BASIC of course the most popular. Even ostensibly "compiled" languages often targeted something in between,

For 6502s, Interpreters were much more common, with BASIC of course the most popular. Even ostensibly "compiled" languages often targeted something in between, e.g. UCSD Pascal targeted a virtual machine, and FORTH compiled typically to some sort of jump table.