I found his emphasis on history to be unusual and refreshing, but we don't certainly don't need to agree on someone else's goals for their project. That said,

I found his emphasis on history to be unusual and refreshing, but we don't certainly don't need to agree on someone else's goals for their project. That said, I personally don't see a lot of value in being too critical of projects with different goals. (That feels a little bit like back-seat driving where you have a different destination in mind than the person behind the wheel.) If someone has the motivation and creativity to embark on a project, good for them. If you or someone else wants to port TeX with different goals, that's also fine. In any case, until Glenn's source code is available, neither one of us can say very much about the code he has written.