There needs to be a sensible way to measure progress, so a set of benchmarks needs to be chosen. Not sure all funders can agree on those. Also, I believe many l

There needs to be a sensible way to measure progress, so a set of benchmarks needs to be chosen. Not sure all funders can agree on those. Also, I believe many large companies who are running code at truly large scale are already using low-level languages like C++ (Google).