I think in the beginning they did think of it as a C++ replacement, but it has been a long time since anyone from the core team has used those terms (system lan

I think in the beginning they did think of it as a C++ replacement, but it has been a long time since anyone from the core team has used those terms (system language) to describe it. It is more of an alternative to Java or Python. Possibly the server described should have been written in Java in the first place.