> why: I am so tired of worrying about & spending lots of time fixing memory leaks and crashes and stability issues. it would be so nice if the language provided more powerful tools for preventing these things.

As expected, Modula-2 / Objective Pascal like safety was great during the last century, before automatic resource management, and improved type system became common in this century.

Naturally also have to note, wasn't this supposed to be only an experiment, nothing serious?