The fact that he's such a Emacs fan makes me skeptical about project Grok, to be honest. There is only so far you can take Emacs and for statically typed languages, IDE's leave Emacs in the dust.

I with he were more knowledgeable on IDE's (IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio, XCode) so he had a better idea of what modern developers expect from their tools.

I'm hoping Grok will succeed, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the coming year, it gets completely canceled.