Why Janet?

The author advocates for Janet, a small Lisp dialect programming language, highlighting its key advantages: simplicity with only eight core instructions that can be learned in an afternoon, the ability to compile programs into lightweight standalone executables under 1MB, superior text parsing capabilities through parsing expression grammars, and excellent subprocess handling for scripting tasks. Janet is positioned as an ideal choice for side projects, command-line utilities, and embedded scripting due to its small footprint, ease of distribution, and approachable design.