It's still a research language today. Honestly, we would need to make a fairly major push --- which would freeze all resarch work and publications --- to get to

It's still a research language today. Honestly, we would need to make a fairly major push --- which would freeze all resarch work and publications --- to get to a point where it is ready for general use. We're working on some grant proposals along those lines, because frankly without NSF support (in the context of making it ready for wider use in classes such as CMU's new intro curriculum), it's unlikely we can justify the massive amount of work required to take it from something that PL experts to use to something that, say, MLton or SML/NJ users could pick up and use. I hate to sound mercenary, but frankly if we can't significantly increase the project from the current number of developers (myself and two part-time undergrads), it's difficult to see how we can make it more generally available. Especially when I lose a couple of months of work every time we double the number of processors in a server-class machine, as there's always either a GC bug or some scalability issue still lurking in the runtime...