[shriramkmurthi]

Good question re. Web Assembly. The problem is we need much more than tail calls. Just as important is deep stacks, to enable a _functional_ style of “functional programming”. And that has definitely been a headache. Our current (clever) implementation strategy actually gives us tail calls as a consequence of the deep stacks, using a variant of Henry Baker's "Cheney on the MTA" (for those old enough to remember that) combined with the "stack reconstitution" technique we published in ICFP a decade ago [http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/pcmkf-...] and a few other things. But tail calls by themselves wouldn't be enough.

What _could_ we use help with? Obviously, we could use infrastructure help or porting to “platforms” (e.g., a REPL on top of Node), but those are huge commitments and require a lot of special knowledge. But I think a person with only a little time can still help.

Right now, I feel the language is still a bit impoverished. We want to make it really easy to get working with data, and that's still too hard. But pretty soon we're going to be putting out better support for tabular data manipulation. Actually use it to do some fun things with data; share your successes (when things work) and your experiences (when they don't)!