This is more or less what Sean Baxter was trying to do with https://www.circle-lang.org/ https://www.circle-lang.org/. Of course, this requires buying into a

This is more or less what Sean Baxter was trying to do with https://www.circle-lang.org/ https://www.circle-lang.org/. Of course, this requires buying into a set of tooling and learning a lot of specific idioms. I can't say I've used it, but from reading the docs it seems sound enough.