It's great to see Chris write this up. It's always refreshing to see someone explore the work of those who have had similar concerns or solved similar problems

It's great to see Chris write this up. It's always refreshing to see someone explore the work of those who have had similar concerns or solved similar problems. Whether they have independently chosen a similar direction or are standing on the shoulders. Provides a good reference for new comers wanting to understand what approaches have been explored before. We live in exciting times. The confusion of (programming) tongues is in full swing; the CPU clock wall is with us; high level features such as closures and GC now have fairly efficient implementations - it seems there are now enough transistors to deliver much of the abstraction that was envisioned by the founders but gave way to pragmatic concerns in the early microcomputer era. I am looking forward to IDEs that manage and simplify complexity, and hardware ISAs that throw a few more transistors at things like STM, tagged data and memory management. I can see a future where I can edit code in a language foreign to me, but see an instant side-by-side (editable) version in a dialect I'm more comfortable with. Switch in another view and drag and drop states in my state machine via direct manipulation, and so forth.