> ...it’s wasteful to serialize and deserialize programs at each stage in a long pipeline. But the trade-off is that the Bril ecosystem comprises a large number of small pieces, loosely joined and infinitely remixable on the command line.
Education often has needs diametrically opposed to production. For example, the early Pascal compilers seem to have been optimised for throughput, not object codegen: after all, production code is compiled rarely and run often, but student code is compiled often and run almost never.