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I remember Clay, it was mentioned on Reddit for the first time around the same time I first heard about Rust (back when Rust was a very different beast). I though Clay was very interesting, it's a shame it is more or less abandoned.

Looks like that is the current maintainer. The original designer was someone name KS Sreeram http://kssreeram.org/

What's cool is that Clay's designer is now working for Apple on Swift https://github.com/jckarter

Maybe because it hasn't been updated in 3-4 years?

There are a lot of languages which are "dead" but are useful to look at when you're designing a new one. Clay is certainly one of those if you're looking at building a low-level language.