What should Teal be? - musings on FOSS project directions

Here at the Declarative and Minimalistic Computing devroom, we discuss several FOSS projects -- some very small, often a wild idea being pursued by an individual (Teal started this way!), some actually pretty big, with large repositories of contributions by many people (such as Guix). The idea of minimalism is a common thread, but this can be understood as different things for different people. As a project evolves and changes to meet the needs of their users, how are the original design goals affected?

In past talks we have discussed the origins of Teal, a programming language that aims to bring static typing to Lua programmers, while keeping a minimalist ethos, and we have also discussed its evolution. This time, let's catch up with recent developments that shipped in Teal 2024, consider the nature of user feedback received so far, and talk about in which direction should Teal 2025 and beyond go.