It was made by veteran SWEs frustrated with C++ in whatever level of code that it was too pedantic for. I think it was targeting all that stuff that was written

It was made by veteran SWEs frustrated with C++ in whatever level of code that it was too pedantic for. I think it was targeting all that stuff that was written in C++ rather than Java for performance reasons but could still use bounds checking and GC. Pretty specific use case. Java, Python, or JS will still be a lot quicker to work with for higher-level things or quick scripts.