First take: Oh, Google, what are you doing this time? Second take: Wait, the guy behind V8 is working on this... Hm, I'll have to take a look.
It sounds like Lars himself may not have tons of expertise creating a language, but teaming up with someone who does and throwing in his own expertise getting it to run fast in a browser... might be interesting.
However, is there a concern here that only Chrome will support it for a while? Then anything you write in it will be Chrome only. Isn't that kind of like the bad old days when each browser had its own tags and whatnot?
If it's good and the spec is open, I don't see anything wrong with that. If it's really that great and becomes popular, other browsers will be able to add support easily.
It sounds like Lars himself may not have tons of expertise creating a language, but teaming up with someone who does and throwing in his own expertise getting it to run fast in a browser... might be interesting.
However, is there a concern here that only Chrome will support it for a while? Then anything you write in it will be Chrome only. Isn't that kind of like the bad old days when each browser had its own tags and whatnot?