Very interesting. Ostensibly, Google is building a language-and-IDE-independent programmer tool that IDEs can use to provide completion info and documentation. Yegge doesn't imply that there is a staggering potential for syntax-aware metaprogramming, statistics collection and automated bug finding—he doesn't have to.

Google-sponsored C replacement from what looks like most of the entire original Bell Labs team. Garbage-collected, with facilities for parallelism and a typing system that mostly resembles Python's (although presumably not evaluated at runtime). Some measures to reduce the verbosity of C, but not a lot.