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I would say it is a matter of available libraries, deployment options and how fast can the generated code execute.

This type of systems is what I dream of, when I get my hands on old demos of the early Smalltalk and Lisp environments and try to imagine how would computing look like if those systems had gone mainstream.

Being super productive at high abstraction level, but exposing enough knobs to go down to the metal if one really needs to.

Oh well, dreaming is always possible.




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