Pip, 8 bytes
"\/"@aXa
Straightforward. Uses modular indexing to select the character and string repetition to multiply it. Try it online!
This question presents an interesting comparison between Pip, Pyth, and Jelly, the latter two each having scored 5 bytes. All three languages have implicit output, with single-char operators for modular indexing and string repetition, and no requirement to escape backslashes in strings. There are two key differences, though:
- Under certain circumstances, Pyth and Jelly need only one delimiter to define a string;
- Pyth and Jelly have syntax such that the input doesn't need to be explicitly represented in the code (though for very different reasons, as Maltysen explained to me).
Neither one of these features is likely to show up in Pip1 (I don't like the aesthetics of unbalanced delimiters, and point-free syntax or implicit operands seem like they would be too alien to my infix expression parser), but I'm okay with playing third fiddle. Even though "readability" is extremely relative when golfing, I'd argue that those three extra bytes make the Pip program a lot easier to understand at a glance--and in my book, that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
1 Although, single-character strings in Pip use a single '
delimiter, inspired by CJam and by quoting in Lisp.