I think there were a lot of great ideas presented in these small examples.

1. Explicitly marking non-local _data_ vs. in-memory. A very cool idea -- languages and libraries I've used all seem to try to make this transparent (unsuccessfully, as indicated by the random serialization errors you get)

2. Making the noise around serialization and RPC transparent to the user

3. Bring the code to the data, not the data to the code

4. Immutability, FP, and I like the syntax -- no coincidence in its similarities to Haskell and Scala, I'm sure :)

These are all pain points in a lot of existing "big data systems" I've used, where they either solve the problem half-baked or don't address at all. I'm excited to see where this project goes!