&gt; At the end of the day, all that really matters is whether the language helped you do what you were trying to do better than any other language.<p>Absolutely.  But one problem that new languages face is that libraries are part of how much the language helps you do what you are trying to do.  So to gain any traction, a new language needs to have libraries...<p>&gt; Complete C ABI Compatibility<p>... and there they are!  Nicely done, though this is a fairly common solution these days.  Or, it could be regarded as a cheat, because you don&#x27;t have your own library...<p>&gt; Alternative Standard Library<p>... and another point of criticism dies.<p>I also like the difference between debug and release builds.  All in all, this looks pretty nice.