Wow, thanks for the analysis! I think it was very astute to pay attention to how Red Hat was supporting (or not) the language, it never occurred to me to look a

Wow, thanks for the analysis! I think it was very astute to pay attention to how Red Hat was supporting (or not) the language, it never occurred to me to look at the project from that POV, a really useful one. I think the language is quirky in a lot of ways with the verbose syntax being one of them. I liked some aspects of the type system that made it look close to an ML flavor, although the language had heavy OOP syntax. In this way I thought it was similar to Scala. There are a few nice write ups from the author on the process of coming up with the syntax. The one talking about constructors is a good example [1]. 1: https://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/21/constructors/ https://ceylon-lang.org/blog/2015/06/21/constructors/