I tried that over a month

except '- the directness and simplicity of JavaScript'

https://github.com/artpar/guage

But somehow the language feels so foreign. it can obviously do hello world, but I don't have a real use case

PS: the "Pure symbols only" is no longer true, most symbols have been converted to English names

and, the "days" you see there in the markdowns are "claude code sessions", not actual days