There have been so many successful projects started by one person. Shooting it down before seeing what will be done is a bad idea.<p>I&#x27;m interested in it breaking away from the JVM to become more performant, since that has been one of my concerns about Scala; there is a lot of good about JVM-based languages, but when in the ring with other languages like Go, you need to be quick to win.<p>I hope that others join him, but there&#x27;s no reason to believe he can&#x27;t do it if he sets his mind to it.