Between, I ended up making a similar type of game for Wowie Jam 4. If you feel like coding some drone in JavaScript, check it out:)
That's so cool! Just tried it out. (for some reason I'm not getting itch notifications anymore so I just saw it now)
I really like the idea of being able to have the previous program work while you program. I would like to add something like that to my game aswell but I can't think of a way of doing it while it also highlights what code is executing currently.
Also I see you were facing the same main problem I am: trying not to overwhelm the player. Pretty brutal just throwing a wall of js at you
Thanks for trying out!
As I was doing it for a short game jam and I happened to be busy part of the time, my main problem was to at least finish the main loop (buy seed, plant, extract, sell crop) somehow, which I barely managed to do.
But then - yes, I know it's overwhelming. Tutorial and incremental progression is critically missing. Ideally, it would start with only ~5 lines of boilerplate code that you'll expand yourself.