Confirmed that this is an experimental branch, not a decision to switch languages

Confirmed that this is an experimental branch, not a decision to switch languages @mariusdotdev @simonw I want to see what a viable side by side comparison looks like. Does it use less memory? How many crash reports go away? What does the performance look like? Nothing decided this is all just experimentation

Source: Simon Willison (X) | 2026-05-05