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  • take a look at one of the “fantasy consoles”, can do quick scripts and see results immediately:

    • TIC-80 – primarily uses Lua but they’ve added in support for Ruby, JS, Moon, Fennel, Scheme, Squirrel, Wren, WASM, Janet, and Python as well
    • uxn – virtual machine using uxntal, a kind of Forth/assembly hybrid

    for an actual language, don’t discount Lua – simple, fast, tiny – “real programmers” like to ridicule it, and yet it keeps turning up everywhere from video game scripting to text editor configuration to databases to web servers

    • Learn X in Y Minutes – a good introduction to a lot of languages, gives you a good idea of their look-and-feel
    • Rosetta Code – LOTS of languages with LOTS of code examples