As a general rule, if an announcement about a movie project is over a year old and nothing else has been mentioned since, you can safely assume it's no longer a thing.
The better question would be: Even if we did have such tools, what stories would be worth telling with them?
I don't doubt that we will eventually have something like this, in the same way we now have CGI with forensic fidelity. The problem will no longer be "How do we realize this?" but "What's worth realizing?" The new limit is no longer technology; it's our taste and our discernment, which are not being developed anywhere nearly as aggressively as our tech.
This looks like it could become an excellent alternative in time to not just NumPy and Numba, but also Cython. I know that may be more ambitious than your original intentions, but that's absolutely what sprung to mind.
Well, if they don't have a will, as is sadly too often the case with people who are suddenly famous, there's typically a big squabble over their estate that can go on for years...
In the golden years of Disney's animation industry, the animators kept a bulletin board out in the hallway between the studios where each animator worked. This board was dubbed "the goodie board". If you came up with a concept, a sketch, a shot, that didn't work for whatever you were doing but which you liked anyway, you could pin it to the goodie board, where others were welcome to take it wholesale or crib from it.
I kept this idea for my own use. If I have an idea in a story I'm working on and it doesn't quite fit, but I like it anyway, I save it to my own goodie board. On rainy days I poke through it, and oftentimes I find something worth reusing in another context.
In the “Office Ladies” podcast (where actresses from the TV show The Office recount their days working on it), they mention the writers had a similar “candy bag” they’d put ideas in when they couldn’t work them in the episode they were working on, from which to pull down the line.
Andrei Codrescu had a monologue once, about how the world is in truth peopled by two-thousand year old men who "arrived at their great age with the aid of daily doses of yogurt, cigarettes, vodka, and dubious birth records. ... With the exception of their eyelashes, which reach to the ground, they are in very good shape."
ha, my grandpa said (this would have been mid 1980s) there were 150-year old people living in communes in russia and I asked how they lived so long and he said they ate yogurt. But I think he must have been referring to this: https://www.nytimes.com/1977/09/09/archives/soviet-centenari...
