Noop: A testable, legacy code friendly, opinionated language for the JVM

Good luck - it's nice to see someone making a language that suits their beliefs and requirements.

For me the ability to express myself succintly and to have as much power/capability as possible are the most important things in a language. Capable libraries are probably the next most important thing to me (which combined are why I like C# 3.5+).

However, I can respect the ability, especially when working with a large team of unknown (or variable) capability developers, the value in having high levels of testability and language limits.

In those cases you are tackling the problems quite well - testability allows senior developers to put checks and balances in place, the language limits help facilitate that testability and keep other developers from doing anything crazy, the focus on simplified readibility helps developers read others' code quickly, and executable documentation lets developers get up to speed and interact quickly.

Because of the legacy code support (albeit a little different in its extent) I'm reminded of http://nice.sourceforge.net/ which I think has a few cool ideas (but is no longer developed though I could be wrong).

It sounds like there is no working code yet, and as such I'm not sure if you've devised some code examples that demonstrate what you want Noop to look like (i.e. examples of where it makes Java code better) but if/when you do you should put them on the main page.

Needs code examples.