Objective-S is aiming right into that sweet spot. https://objective.st https://objective.st The dichotomy between "interactive, but slow" and "fast, but extre

Objective-S is aiming right into that sweet spot. https://objective.st https://objective.st The dichotomy between "interactive, but slow" and "fast, but extremely slow to compile" is a false one. Similar to the one we had of "easy-to-use but crashy client operating systems (Windows, MacOS)" vs. "solid but user hostile server OSes". Now my watch runs Unix. For Objective-S, this is a side-quest, but an important one. https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/12/the-4-stages-of-objective-smalltalk.html https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/12/the-4-stages-of-objectiv... I made 3 false starts with LLVM, but each time got discouraged by the crazy binary sizes, compile times and sheer conceptual overhead, all for (mostly) a slew of optimisations that yield extremely diminishing returns in the first place, and mostly aren't applicable anyway. I now have a tiny (and still incomplete) AOT native compiler for aarch64 in addition to the AST-walker and couldn't be happier. Produces .o files, can JIT in principle, now looking at getting sufficient linker functionality in there to directly create executable and dylibs/frameworks. Oh, and ELF support.