The problem is that such an effort would produce a cute academic toy with zero traction in the real world. Or looking at it from the other perspective - would y

The problem is that such an effort would produce a cute academic toy with zero traction in the real world. Or looking at it from the other perspective - would you expect that Clang, Chrome, Mozilla folks just rewrite their projects? What about the core infrastructure code that Google/Bloomberg have implemented in C++?