I mentioned a few months back that my team had collaborated with MSR to publish a paper to OOPSLA about some novel aspects of our programming language (see here and here).
I was excited when Jonathan over at InfoQ asked to interview me about this work. We had a fun back and forth, and I hope the result helps to clarify some of the design goals and decisions we made along the way.
You can check it out here: Uniqueness and Reference Immutability for Safe Parallelism.