Ceylon has showed up on HN a few times. Here's the link to recent comment thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463464

I like to skim through their gitter channel from time to time, to see what they are up to. But lately, it's not clear.

Does anybody here have more data on this? What's next for ceylon? What's the status with the intellij plugin? Or with the android support in general?

Ceylon is such an under-rated language. It is what Java should have been - had it been curated better. RedHat should really spend more time/money on spreading the word - a lot of people have not even heard of it.

Why elephant again? Don't we have too many elephants in logos already in popular OSS projects? Hadoop, PostgreSQL and now Ceylon...