Zest: A Programming Language Balancing Malleability and Legibility

Zest is a work-in-progress programming language designed to create systems that are both malleable and legible. It aims to combine the interactivity and liveness of systems like emacs with features like static typing, early binding, and jump-to-definition. Currently, Zest supports basic control flow, arithmetic, and functions, but still needs improvements in error handling, memory management, and recursive functions. Code can be interpreted or compiled, but mixed mode is not yet supported. The documentation includes embedded tests to verify the output of different dialects (lax and strict).