[corv]

I don't see how a clean-slate approach brings them closer to their goal of "make hosting this virtual machine easy enough to do that anyone could".

Decentralized "cloud" computing is a necessity and I commend them for their efforts but this seems like a case of NIH syndrome if I ever saw one.

[__s]

There's an alternative purely functional distributed virtual machine out there?

[bordercases]

It might not be easy in terms of connecting it to your existing knowledge, but it could be easy in terms of learning it for the first time. Beginner's mind.