Welcome + Opening Remarks

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Argues two concrete goals: universal portable runtime that hides CPU/OS/drivers, and component model / modern mainframe that reuses stable APIs like S3 and Postgres so languages avoid native libs. Claims requiring full rewrites is almost guaranteed to fail, warns the winner-takes-all result is carrying the maintenance burden (OpenSSL example), notes only about four people visibly back the universal vision and many attendees aren’t contributors, and urges collaboration and demonstrable, incremental results.

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