So, novice question: will Web Assembly help TCO? I know nothing of it really, but it seems like a long-term goal, not shortterm for the WA design team.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/189

As an aside, I am a weak programmer, but I love what you guys have done with Racket, especially with incremental language building with #lang directives. I know you could not do that so seamlessly in Pyret, but I love your progessive lang building, progressive type addition. You get the practicalities of pedagogy in language learning by breaking it down into pieces; I wish more people got that and could have succeeded into steering me into double majoring in Arabic and CS. Ironically I was so weak at it after two semesters of C++ only for major intro courses, the enticement of crazy USG machine translation gigs my profs promised me scared me away with my impostor syndrome.

So why say this? How can people like me help with Pyret? I think its web browser JS transpilation are very interesting, and in this age of data visualization and rich multimedia interactivity, I think these tools are the future of language learning, university or not, whether people think it.

I see you guys went so deep with Racket for building blocks of abstract language building blocks, but the Racket people involved in Pyret are sweetening the deal with the notion of tools for practical incentivization with the wep API and media integration.

So, yeah ... sorry to brain dump there. Really enjoyed this post and the work of your lot over there.