Probably a decade or two premature but can't hurt to hedge the bets (there's definitely opportunity to make software that makes fpga and asic compilation from higher level languages easier though - only reason it's not happening is the high talent required and low amount of people at that intersection, there's no way verilog/vhdl is the global minima).

I'm going to sound like one of those fanboys but Rust really is a breath of fresh air. Lots of people now are starting to make actually fast and performant applications due to the ergonomics of the language being more high level than something like C or C++. It's actually my favorite ML type language, I've use OCaml to a large extent before but with Rust, the DX is still pretty nice, even if you have to contend with the borrow checker.