> It's worth nothing that if this approach becomes popular
I hope so. In the 90's we had strong typed languages with native compilers, somehow we got into this VM detour because everyone wanted to create applets.
And those languages[1], for multiple reasons faded away.
Very true. It's not exactly rational, but it always makes me sad when I realize that popularity of given language only slightly depends on quality of its design (Haskell seems to be a counter example, it survived years in obscurity and now seems to gain popularity).
I hope so. In the 90's we had strong typed languages with native compilers, somehow we got into this VM detour because everyone wanted to create applets.
And those languages[1], for multiple reasons faded away.
[1] Oberon(-2), Object Pascal, Modula-2, Modula-3, ...