I can say that, with Gosu, our goal is not to be innovative with syntax or semantics. Rather, our goal is to make common patterns today easier to deal with. A

I can say that, with Gosu, our goal is not to be innovative with syntax or semantics. Rather, our goal is to make common patterns today easier to deal with. As an example: the open type system allows developers to mix various resources (xml files, wsdl files, json/jschema files, etc.) along side the gosu code, and access it all in a type-safe, easy-to-tool manner. This isn't particularly innovative from an academic perspective: there are no theories at work here, just some practitioners trying to make our lives easier. On the other hand, it is a very nice advancement for day-to-day coding. As a broad generalization, I think that the technology community over-prioritizes innovation: I believe it would be more productive for most people to take the best ideas of the past and get on with the laborious task of sanding down and perfecting the implementations.