I remember reading about this 4 years ago as the new Chris Lattner project and was super excited, though a little skeptical.

I think that nowadays with vibe/agentic coding, high performance Python-like languages become ever more important. Directly using AI agents to code, say, C++, is painful as the verbose nature of the language often causes the context window to explode.

Not to mention that C++ basically can't be made to be safe. But Rust is probably fine.