Ah I figured it probably wouldn't be the same degree of commitment as Kotlin given the disparity of demand. Are you at liberty to say whether this is a project JetBrains hopes to eventually use in a production capacity for its own work?

I'm not in contact with the research team and don't know which practical applications they have in mind, but as far as IntelliJ is concerned, we don't have any current plans to use the results of their work.