It actually makes perfect sense. It's basically a lateral step from Perl but without the shell, command line, or procedural scripting strengths. Even if it were a better language on some levels as many I know and respect believe, it would be hard pressed to find itself doing anything but floundering the node.js, big-data python, legacy Perl era.

Footnote: I for one like having you around and I know you are deeply committed to the bit and I'm the kind of idiot who enjoys it but dropping the sig is a good idea to reduce friction and obvious rebuttals like– 

time curl http://www.evancarroll.com
curl: (7) Failed to connect to www.evancarroll.com port 80: Operation 
+timed out
0.005u 0.005s 1:16.06 0.0%    0+0k 0+0io 1pf+0w

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