Still here, but dividing my time in finishing my phd, learning to use arc to code for a pet project of mine.
Can't imagine pg just abandoning arc, but a bit more excitement from the regulars would be a good thing. Perhaps we can do something like start writing the great computer language shootout progs in arc (although not for speed, we'd be able to go for brevity and clarity)?
As for shootout , that would be a good idea, but the current implementations (arc2, arc2c or even others) aren't mature enough to compete.
I mean, arc2 takes 3 sec. to startup (and it cannot even take command line arguments) and arc2c is not meta-circular yet (and lacks a lot of things, including command-line args, but that is easy to add), so a real benchmarks would need both arcs (one to compile, the other to run the compiler). I don't know the precise status of other implementations, but I guess they aren't mature enough either.
And, that's a chicken-and-egg problem, but I don't think the shootout admins would accept to add an Arc implementation until the language is a little more popular (or there would have thousands of languages referenced).
