Had fun writing up features scripting languages in the future might have:
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Your comment about some sort of "LLVM for scripting languages" kind of reminded me of the goals of Parrot VM: parrot.org – the project is now discontinued though.
Dunno if there are any things that can be learned from it. I think Raku has since switched to MoarVM: moarvm.org
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