It depends somewhat on the complexity of the language. Nim uses an interpreter but Nimony, which is destined to becomes Nim 3.0, uses your approach. It will be

It depends somewhat on the complexity of the language. Nim uses an interpreter but Nimony, which is destined to becomes Nim 3.0, uses your approach. It will be interesting to how hassles and performance play out there and whether they keep the compile-and-run approach or go back to an interpreter.