I would hope to have been given programming interfaces that didn’t have a multi-fortnight compile time. I think a primitive assembly language and a way of specifying logic circuits would be easy to provide. Books about language and OS design would also be good—quite likely existing languages wouldn’t be optimal for nearly instant compiling. I’d look at Forth as a possible language rather than any I currently use. There should be workstations with graphics output controlled by programmable analogue circuits for once you work out how to program them efficiently.
I would hope to have been given programming interfaces that didn’t have a multi-fortnight compile time. I think a primitive assembly language and a way of specifying logic circuits would be easy to provide. Books about language and OS design would also be good—quite likely existing languages wouldn’t be optimal for nearly instant compiling. I’d look at Forth as a possible language rather than any I currently use. There should be workstations with graphics output controlled by programmable analogue circuits for once you work out how to program them efficiently.