I don't know how much of a success TRACTOR will be, probably not a success at all but the fact that thousands perhaps millions of dollars are spend for that is just a testimony for rusts future. I don't think it will harm rusts reputation more than the rust foundation dramas.
For developers it's always a risk to invest a lot of time in mastering a language. More so if the language to master is rust, a hard one to begin with. But yeah I guess rust devs need to remind themselves that it is worth it and TRACTOR did just that for me
Not unlike Ada's. It is actually pretty good and deeply thought out language. But US govt got involved with it.