I wish the author has written about the motives behind the language and why someone should choose Copper. We have in fact more programming languages than we actually can use.
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It is a personal project, which the author uses for some other personal projects.
Clade - a programming editor with elastic tabstobs and Smalltalk like navigation
Maybe, there is more. Looks to me like an illustration of the "It is a quiet life" meme