s goal, in one sentence?</a></h1>
<p>To design and implement a safe, concurrent, practical, static systems language.</p>

<h1 id='why-are-you-doing-this' class='section-header'><a href='#why-are-you-doing-this'>2 Why are you doing this?</a></h1>
<p>Existing languages at this level of abstraction and efficiency are unsatisfactory. In particular:</p>

<ul>
<li>Too little attention paid to safety.</li>
<li>Poor concurrency support.</li>
<li>Lack of practical affordances, too dogmatic about paradigm.</li>
</ul>