[clockwork_189]

This looks interesting, but just like with any new technology, I like to look at any alternatives besides the proposed technology and see how it stacks up. So I guess my question would be, what are the alternatives to this? Or even what are the alternate methods to implementing some of the stuff that this language takes care of?

[joveian]

Ragel is an alternative for state machines that works with a few different programming languages:

http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/

[subway]

This seems a whole lot like the Bro IDS (https://www.bro.org)