You know, I hate to dog on attempts at innovation, but I fail to see what is new or exciting about this language. It looks like it's just solving some of the pr

You know, I hate to dog on attempts at innovation, but I fail to see what is new or exciting about this language. It looks like it's just solving some of the problems with Java and C++ that were apparent 15 years ago. I suppose baked-in support for parallelization of list operations is nice, but I wonder how that works with mutable state. And really, I thought (hoped?) OOP was starting to die out in the latest generation of languages that we were seeing, especially very formal OOP. I suppose strong support for meta-programming and compile-time reflection is a leap forward, but one glance at the grammar of the language, in all its complexity, made me wonder how feasible manipulating the abstract syntax would be in a real environment. I understand not everyone wants to rethink and update older languages like Lisp (Clojure), Perl (Ruby), or Java (Scala), a but this just seems like the author got tired of waiting for C++0x and decided to make his own.