Undeniably impressive, but saddening nevertheless. The man insisted on replicating the mistakes of the past: Von Neumann bottleneck, C, Unix. This creation is a "model airplane" - a world-class one, to be sure, but a model airplane still.
Building the hardware is an amazing project. You are suggesting that he should have designed a new architecture, core language, and operating system as well?
I'm sure that just doing this is a major project, and that if I read it right he did this in his spare time. Between having a wife, kids, a day job and a house to keep up he's done pretty good. And it's very well designed from the aesthetics point of view as well.
