creative_spirit

I have limited experience with lisps, and for me a smaller language, that is easy to pick up, works well. I can finally do things in a lisp, without having to struggle with the full breadth and depth of the bigger guys (and I do not have to install e.g. jvm on my machine :). So for me it is a graceful way to work in a paradigm that I long like, but I somehow could not make my way to.

Check what it says about the hobby language - it is not meant to attract huge crowds, so it does not need to be 'respectable'. For me it is good if it raises associations with Logo, though - as Logo was also providing way to computing for 'non-professionals' - thus keeping the fun and joy of computing.

Slope is very easy to pickup. It is concise. It has simple and easy package manager. You do not need to learn huge tooling around it, etc. You can quickly build a console or GUI app. You can write your modules and it's FOSS. I'd say that all this makes it an excellent small, hobby lang.

A hackable hobby programming language and toolset for having fun and making cool things