Having a REPL is a big productivity boost for Python, not avoiding an explicit compile step. A compile step is utterly trivial to avoid (e.g. "make run" which b

Having a REPL is a big productivity boost for Python, not avoiding an explicit compile step. A compile step is utterly trivial to avoid (e.g. "make run" which builds and runs). Likewise, live reloading is possible in C using dlopen().