From the article: "My conclusion is that there are major, well-justified reasons for why people strongly dislike functional languages. The hypothesis I aim to test with a new programming language is: By making different tradeoffs, these issues can be mitigated and a more broadly-appealing functional language can be built. With such a language, I hope that the true promise of functional programming for parallel computing can be widely realized."

It's a laudable aim, and I wish you all the best with it. A new language with it's own 'zen', similar to the 'zen of python' but with a functional flavour, is something I'd love to see, and I think it'd do well.

Is there something I can read that's a little more specific about the "different tradeoffs" you have in mind?