"very small" doesn't mean "not proficient".
> there was an odd ICO tangent
The main purpose of which was to raise enough money for hiring new team members (which, as you pointed out, is "very small").
> They seem to be trying to target practically every type of development on every platform
And results so far are great, considering that language is in alpha version: Android support (which means Java bridge, there's also a prototype for .NET one [3]), native GUI backends and declarative DSL for UI creation, low-level DSL for system programming and much more (read full description on website), fitting in ~1MB executable and, perfomance-wise, comparable with other scripting languages in speed (while having zero optimizations).
> it's unclear how much money they raised
Certanily enough to continue development with confidence. During ICO, all tokens were sould out. You can roughly calculate the cash value by yourself with ETH/USD ratio during ICO period and RED/ETH ratios for each round of exchange.
> I would have expected recent news to tie into the ICO promises
I suggest you to check recent articles on red-lang.org. ATM Red Foundation is working on establishing rules for retroactive community rewards and launching website for monthly reports. Core team progresses towards 0.6.4 release and adjusts future roadmap.
As for /C3 project promises - the team already have a working prototype for wallet Dapp [1], and, per recent announcement, should start on Ethereum node wrapper ASAP. These two goals were set for Q1 2018 (see p.11 in the whitepaper [1]).
[1] : https://github.com/qtxie/red-wallet
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Please read the blog entry again. It specifically says:
> Those features were implemented in about a month and half in August/September 2017. We have delayed the continuation of that work, as we need to focus our resources on higher priority tasks for now, like Red/C3 and full I/O support.
If you also read https://www.red-lang.org/2018/03/roadmap-updates.html, it should clarify exactly where we are and where we're headed.