What is the current status the project? Is there any ongoing work and plans?
Here are factors playing a role in my current thinking:
1/ the LLVM debacle. I just can't follow them changing the APIs all the time. I gave up on LLVM for now.
2/ Rust being the first language introducing a concept that was not trivial to introduce via an XL library, lifetimes. I think that I nailed a design now, but it annoyed me for a while, and the design is not implemented.
3/ I spent some time documenting where I wanted to go, notably the type system. As a result, I found that the language was becoming complicated, which annoys me. I'm trying to get back to super-simple roots, but I have no clear path towards this goal yet.
4/ I want to to unify the self-compiling compiler and the dynamic one. The self-compiler only compiles an older dialect of the language.