Absolutely, better to have a good language than something rushed. As an aisde, I'm curious if the core design of the language itself has been/is done online, a

Absolutely, better to have a good language than something rushed. As an aisde, I'm curious if the core design of the language itself has been/is done online, as opposed to working closely in an office environment? In my experience, technical design is something that greatly benefits from being present in the same room as other people. The second you have to sit down and actually write out paragraphs about how you're right about some issue, and debate about it democratically with a group of people, efficiency drops significantly. I guess my hypothesis is that a small team working in a single location could bat out a language faster than a larger distributed team, and that possibly Rust has taken so long partly because it is an example of the latter. > The design we came up with is pretty novel Is this [1]? The roadmap makes it sound like it's up in the air ("one of the larger unknowns") at this point. [1] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/05/31/mutability/ http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/05/31/muta...