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Another way to look at it is a long shot on a new higher level language to entice the folks currently reaching for Java, Python, or other runtime interpreters. An easy and safe language that shifts more work to compile time and offers high performance with ergonomic use will use less power, reduce the education requirements to writing fast code, and potentially change the world like another fast memory safe language governments are increasingly endorsing. Or if nothing else it may serve as a language for interpreters of those languages, or to make extensions to them more ergonomic. With enough scale the improvements can come very incrementally.