Silksong actually mentioned but only in a montage of 2025 games and it was one of the few without a specific date, lol

My go to for most of what you mention is Go, but that’s obviously a compiled language and not for scripting. Or is it - What do you think about https://github.com/traefik/yaegi, which provides an interpreter and REPL for Go? It would let you use a performant and well documented language in a more portable scripting way, but not preclude you from generating statically linked binaries if and when that’s convenient.

That feeling of going from 0 green to 5 in one move 🤌

a stable experience that isn’t buggy

Stable has a particular meaning with distros but I think the context here is using the plain English definition of the word.

I’d definitely go with that right angle drill attachment if it works.