It would help if fellow HNers read through the content a bit before upvoting something quickly. Here is a project which was last updated more than 2 years ago (no changes in source/tutorial/wiki in 2 years). There's no working implementation to support the claim. Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim. Why are we as a community are becoming more and more obsessed with sensational link-baits?
Agreed: http://code.google.com/p/anic/source/list there has been no updates since 2010. I was honestly surprised to see this on HN and actually had to double check that I wasn't seeing an old HN submission for some reason.
I was briefly involved in this project, I wrote some code for instruction selection, was active on the mailing list and had a few lengthy discussions about dataflow programming with Adrian/Ulitmus. Last I heard, in early 2011, he was still working on it, but in private, and he had changed focus somewhat to something even more ambitious. I voiced my concern over raising the bar before the first simpler version was released and feature creep, but I guess his mind was made up. I haven't heard anything since, despite trying to reach him a couple of times :-(
So, from this, I would say that ANI can safely be assumed dead unless a working compiler is surprise-released.
Same here, I had some discussion with the creator but it looked rather doomed from the start. He was worrying about parser optimization, logo design, and interactive shells, when there wasn't even any (hand-)compiled program or proof of concept of the semantics...
