An ambitious project, but had you seen this?
<https://handwiki.org/wiki/Onyx_(programming_language>) There is already a
language called Onyx. It's over 120 years since H.G. Wells published the War of
the Worlds about a Martian invasion, so people did imagine all sorts of things
100 years ago, and there are much older literary references to futuristic
concepts. C is the main low level system language in Linux because it is
universally supported and available at early boot - although I don't think it
was fully finished, vdev was originally in C++ but then it was requested that
it was changed to C, and there is some discussion of the reasons here:
<https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1008306.html#7678892>
