Hi Tom, It appears that so long as the virtual machine abstraction is of any value the PicoLisp ecosystem will continue to grow. PicoLisp basically is Cell (cons pair) processing. One needs to approach PicoLisp bottom up from cell.
Surprisingly the cloud and its serverless abstraction are ultimately abstractions of a virtual machine of a different scale and type, that is orthogonal to PicoLisp. There is already a docker implementation of PicoLisp on SmartOS of Titan cloud. Please search and discover. PicoLisp ecosystem appears to be super safe as it is based on future-proof virtual machine architecture, hence as safe and future-proof as mathematics