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Lack of compilation for fexprs is:

A) An exciting research problem! Shutt himself says that he doesn't see any fundamental obstacles to compiling them. It's just that nobody has done it yet.

B) Actually not a big deal for many applications. Take PicoLisp, which has been cheerfully used in customer-facing applications for decades. It's an ultra-simple interpreter (its GC is 200 LOC https://github.com/picolisp/picolisp/blob/dev/src/gc.c ) The same architecture can be used for Kernel implementations.