Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency. What I meant was that the language core should be very constrained around composition of a few core primitives (self-

Thanks for pointing out the inconsistency. What I meant was that the language core should be very constrained around composition of a few core primitives (self-hosting), but that it could be modified or built upon by others. So that it could evolve in multiple avenues of exploration, and gain from the competition. Where it would be up to the community to decide whether they want to use the constrained version(s) (suitable for large scale complex environments), which I prefer, or the bring-your-own syntax version(s) (suitable for small scale playful experimentation and research) which would inevitably appear. Inspirations here would be Lisp, Clojure and Racket. What would be important is to facilitate simple language _merging_, due to all the divergence that would appear. Inspired by Git. So the community could easily find back together after a split (if their ideas and goals come back in alignment, and they have converged to an agrement on the features again).