It would help if the Mill people wrote a peer reviewed paper and produced a lower case ultra small font mVP that people could actually use.

I've been hearing Mill stuff since 2012. They had a weird non LLVM/GCC sorta kinda compiler port. Today in 2016, the toolchain support for way Out Of The Box stuff is great. They could do an LLVM port and a Chisel simulation and have Linux on top of that. But instead we get

  The team is 90% industry vets with very long careers

And no, I'm not going to watch 15 hours of Ivan Godard whinging on. Get off the pot and produce something.