Crosscut

I've been talking about risks, and how they guide my development priorities. Today, I'd like to talk about a few things that I don't consider relevant risks.

I want Caterpillar to have a static type system, that prevents most bugs from being possible. To provide powerful compile-time meta-programming. To be highly performant, with zero-overhead abstractions. To run everywhere: browsers, servers, desktops, phones, watches, microcontrollers; CPUs and GPUs.

It is totally unclear if either of those goals will work out. But that doesn't make them risks to the success of the project. Because a dynamically typed, interpreted language that's suitable for browser games, and helps you gain an intuitive understanding of your code; that would already be a big success.