Absolutely, but then what does it buy you over C/C++? It has a few 'nice to haves' over that, but in this domain those won't tend to be nice enough to motivate

Absolutely, but then what does it buy you over C/C++? It has a few 'nice to haves' over that, but in this domain those won't tend to be nice enough to motivate most people to bother setting up toolchains purposed for it.