Well, this article has been out for about a week now. And I guess a few words are in order. What exactly are we trying to do here?

We're trying to project forward to the Stradivarius of coding. Such an instrument would elevate the game of excellent developers to the highest levels ever. That's what a Strad would do.

Necessarily such a device makes various assumptions about its players. The assumptions here are that object-oriented software construction is important. That exercising new types with tests is the preference if the burden of doing so is not too great. That systems grow in complexity. That developers want to see the frail aspects of a solution in order to remodel them. And finally that the execution states of an application, if stored as a persistent, searchable structure, give rich opportunity for new ways of debugging, optimizing and enhancing the overall quality of an implementation.

So we've taken a crack at it. The interaction of all these new tools is still pretty rough. But we're not done yet. Help us revise and theorize and be a good sounding board. Ultimately you may end up using some of these tools because you helped shape and form the design of them way back in 2006 — so many years ago.