Hi, Reia's my thing. My view on waffling on language design decisions:
If you're working on a language project, fuck it up, and don't do a rewrite, you get PHP.
That said, your other criticisms are valid: much of Erlang's functionality doesn't have first class Reia support (but is still directly callable through the presently undocumented Erlang interfacing syntax)
Many of Ruby's great features aren't available in Reia yet either. I'm shooting for a subset of Ruby's metaprogramming features which aren't incompatible with Erlang-style code loading.
The word waffling was too negative, and you're right. I apologize and I'll definitely keep watching. Erlang and Ruby are my two favorite languages as well, so if you do pull it off at some point, you'll have my support (:
If you're working on a language project, fuck it up, and don't do a rewrite, you get PHP.
That said, your other criticisms are valid: much of Erlang's functionality doesn't have first class Reia support (but is still directly callable through the presently undocumented Erlang interfacing syntax)
Many of Ruby's great features aren't available in Reia yet either. I'm shooting for a subset of Ruby's metaprogramming features which aren't incompatible with Erlang-style code loading.
I hope you'll continue to watch the project.