VLIW is maybe cool, but people will be relieving themselves on EPIC's grave for the pain that it inflicted on them.

Like if you tried to debug a software crash on Itanium. The customer provided core dump was useless as you could not see what was going on. Intel added a debug mode to their compilers which disabled all that EPIC so hopefully you could reproduce the crash there, or on other CPU architectures. Otherwise you were basically screwed.