@jakeblended That is awesome, thanks a lot for this summary in so detailed format, finding it very (very) valuable.
Somehow started to be afraid a little bit from this 2.8 by reading the posts, like a first impression with this so lot of le-learning need. I will be very interested how you guys see it during the class.
Could you please someone point to some articles about the things behind of re-building Blender, presumably 2.8 will be some extra good, fast or something if the developers decided and got free hands to re-structuring from the ground