I'm just now recovering from the jet lag and other
side effects of the Conference -- and I only had travel about 50 miles up the 405. (Then again, with the traffic here, some of you might have beat me home!) I'm still metabolizing the many good ideas served up by the participants were a lot to metabolize, so you may have to wait awhile for that mission statement. But if memory serves, I think the consensus was that we've already added every feature that anyone could ever want in a language!
So other than a few refinements, the main item on the to-do list is get 7.0 fully stabilized, debugged and deployed. On the business side, Ty is going to be hard at work on the new transactional revenue model which should keep us solvent for, well, as long as there are transactions.
A huge Thank You to all of those who made the trip. I know it's a big expense, and a lot of time out of the office, but there's something about spending a few days together with your coding compadres (especially this group!) that makes it all worthwhile, and can't be replaced by the forum, email, social media, etc. I know I get a lot out of it. I'm not even sure we'd still be in business this long if we hadn't been having these meetings (biennially from 2002 except for the pandemic gap since 2018). We may be a little out of practice, but I think this was one of the better ones. (And that's not even counting the swag!)