Garbage collecting interpreters are (mostly) for wimpy scripting kiddies. The obvious historically documented exceptions are the "Symbolic AI Researchers."

In 1990, SQL (and dBASE and Excel) was a "computer language" for secretaries. Now in 2023, we suffer uneducated halfwits manically typing in endless repugnant "ad tech" and "SEO" with our "Bioinformatics Researcher" hacks inflicting delusions based on Excel #Err cells (look it up) upon an unwitting populace.

Somewhere, we went wrong. We have GREAT and WISE Software Engineering (Prescriptive and Historical) guidance available in the public domain now. Our mercenary "job hoppers) don't seem to be interested in accessing that.

Going forward, some combination of ASM and Forth in Open Source incarnations and with type-checking hints will wring the most computation out of energy resources (CPU cycles).