> The interesting aspects, such as how they protect against supply-chain attacks

There are standard techniques to help manage this that apply across languages, there's no reason to reinvent that wheel.

> My hope’s that AI gets really good at Rust so one doesn’t have to directly interact with the unergonomic syntax.

"Unergonomic syntax" is the battle cry of many people resisting learning a new language. AIs have progressed far enough that they can help you in that learning process, though.