I'm in two minds about it. Firstly I was hoping for something like a simplified Scala or a slightly extended Go. Its not either. On the other hand the surprise of seeing it coming out looking so mainstream (i.e. its a mix of javascript and java) is a reminder that really the language doesn't matter that much. The blub paradox is not half as important as one intuitively gives it credit for. See Peter Norvig's comments about how C++ programmers can be as productive as Lispers. Look at something like the iphone. The implementation behind the shiny interface is boringly mainstream, C, objective-C with standard OO GUI framework. Like it or not Google and Apple are about engineering and getting things done. From that point of view something like Haskell might improve things slightly but not half enough to make a significant difference to the end product. i.e. it just doesn't matter.

In summary when I saw the language this morning my first thought was: "Nothing to see here". But as a result my second was: "Get back to work". Maybe that's not so bad.