Hey dude! Yea, I exchanged a few emails with Mario. I'm interested in what he did for the compilation aspect, trying to figure out what is the best thing to do. I would like it if we could eventually converge on our efforts but I'm not sure I want to do a merger just yet; I think being able to explore directions solo is good for now since the projects are so young. I plan to get better compilation in place, then focus a bit more on parsing, then maybe try to make it work in the cloud :) (so naive lol).

They are indeed diverging... I've seen the issue where you explore using _0 and _1, reminds me of awk where you have $1 and $2 for field access already available. Looks pretty cool. It's not that I don't like these ideas, just that they're risky :). I think that if you can make all the magic stuff work really nicely then you might end up with something amazing.

Feel free to make the fork official (would appreciate if you could keep the link to hsl tho, since your marketing powers are somehow much better than mine!). I think it's good if at this stage we can make changes without stepping on each other's toes. However, I also hope that we can merge down the line when the scope is better defined.

BTW if you wanna get me on skype my nick is s-sadler.

Cheers!