If this is a flame war, then it's a pretty tame one :) As for Google's intentions, I've learned (as it has been explained to me time and time again) - never at

If this is a flame war, then it's a pretty tame one :) As for Google's intentions, I've learned (as it has been explained to me time and time again) - never attribute smaller decisions to a larger strategy or "plan" of Google's. It probably not that they decided to stop investing in it, more than "something more interesting came up". I do wish that we could have funded work on core/the interpreter. That would be nice.