[stephen_g]

I'm going to say you're right, given one of the first declarations is

    typedef void* var;

Cello is extremely impressive and could be fun for hobby projects, but for something you'd actually want to use on a real product you'd be better off just creating a new language (it could compile down to C even, like Vala did).

[dingdingdang]

>> (it could compile down to C even, like Vala did).

Nim is another take on that particular strategy.

[cvwright]

Another recent one is Ivory. http://ivorylang.org