But it seems like you're complaining the backend isn't written in Wolfram Language? The JVM is great at that stuff! I don't call that ball-of-mud at all, just using the right tool for the job.
So, I'm curious, is that similar to what Wolfram Cloud will provide? To me, it sounds like a service that will run your Wolfram Language code in the cloud, just like Wolfram Alpha runs it in the cloud as part of its backend. Is that accurate?
The parser is Java, actually. And it's not recursive descent.
> tasks well suited for it
Fancy that! Using a language for things it is well suited to! :)
> compiled and JVM languages stitched together with Mathematica
A lot of stuff is still WL though. Data curation, evaluation, scanning, typesetting, formatting, and, you know, the actual computation in doing something like http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=regression+of+literacy%...
But it seems like you're complaining the backend isn't written in Wolfram Language? The JVM is great at that stuff! I don't call that ball-of-mud at all, just using the right tool for the job.