Do you suppose that might be an outmoded historical bias? I'm wondering if maybe the advancement of hardware has made it so that the costs of AOT compilation an

Do you suppose that might be an outmoded historical bias? I'm wondering if maybe the advancement of hardware has made it so that the costs of AOT compilation and a type system should no longer stand in the way of delivering a reasonable REPL experience. Swift's "playgrounds" seems to do alright — a real outlier in this regard.