Lots of nice ideas which I don't think will work together. Nevertheless, it's always a good idea to give it a go, and the next time around maybe it will work ou

Lots of nice ideas which I don't think will work together. Nevertheless, it's always a good idea to give it a go, and the next time around maybe it will work out. For example, I don't think there is any sense whatsoever to have different syntaxes for exactly the same structures and semantics. You want different syntaxes to make different semantics more accessible. Also, reference counting and functional programming doesn't seem like a good fit, as much as I get the performance aspect.