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The real world is crappy, and we're depending on these academic types to free us from the drollness of it, because we don't all have time to invent an STM. If I wanted to write CRUD apps all day and say that's real-world, I suppose I could, but I would rather enjoy enlightenment.

Function invocation overhead, you say? Why would I want that?

How about Garbage Collection? It'll never work.

It's their responsibility to create foundational research, and it's ours to filter through it and prove the good bits with fire.

'Practical' is a red-herring, I think. We have no way to predict the future, but we all care about progress.