There's a model of computation called 'interaction nets' / 'interaction calculus', which reduces in a more physically-meaningful, local, topologically-smooth way. I.e. you can see from these animations that LC reductions have some "jumping" parts. And that does reflect LC nature, as a reduction 'updates' many places at once. IN basically fixes this problem. And this locality can enable parallelism. And there's an eas…
Speaking of Victor Taelin, what's the latest on https://higherorderco.com/ ? His work is really inspiring and amazing
He shares the progress on Twitter quite often. In the last year they shifted the focus away from raw performance (as beating existing stuff is rather daunting) and into rather unique stuff with code synthesis, perhaps relevant to formal verification of vibe-coded code, etc.