Because we actually have to release something. And you can't be all things to all people. The best we can do is try to create a powerful, safe, extensible langu

Because we actually have to release something. And you can't be all things to all people. The best we can do is try to create a powerful, safe, extensible language, low overhead language with unsafe escape hatches. The hope is that this will allow for future advances in lightweight, task based concurrency in the form of libraries, as opposed to as baked-in language features.