It is both surprising and unsurprising...

Unsurprising because it's not the first time Sony bet on an unusual language (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938652) and people on HN were similarly excited. Days later the initiative was put on hold and the domain doesn't even resolve today. I think it's safe to say that their initiative did not end up as a huge success.

Surprising because according to their own presentation they want to use an alpha version technology created by a company which is known to be cancelling projects on a whim and which is not really using said technology for anything important.

A decade later one things remains clear: you can count on HNers to jump on any obscure programming language and praise it to the skies.