Just in case you’re unaware of @Brian_Carroll ‘s prior work, it may be of interest:
I believe he also wrote a summary for why he stopped somewhere but I couldn’t find it at a quick glance.
You may also like to consider Gren http://gren-lang.org/ if your intent is to have a community around your new language, as our niche is already quite small relatively speaking to sustain so many forks perhaps
