In my experience the new generation of devs haven't touched C and treat it like some kind of weird arcane language, a bit like what Fortran and COBOL were when I started coding around 2000.
I doubt their potential users would care so much, as long as it's significantly faster than Python and they don't need C or C++, except as an option and not as a necessity. That's been the point of various other alternative languages.
The claim to fame of various newer compiled languages, is not just being as fast as C, but that they are better alternatives to use, for their audiences. Being easier to use, read, or/and learn. This is where some of the drama comes from, because some will make it about speed, and ignore the other elements of what is "attractive".