It is mostly for fun and exercise in language design, I don't have any grand aspirations for it. It is however, by this time, a usable general-purpose language.
Alumina borrows (zing) heavily from Rust, except for its raison d'être (memory safety). Syntax is a blatant rip-off of Rust, but so is the standard library scope and structure.
Alumina bootstrap compiler currently compiles to ugly C, but a self-hosted compiler is early stages that will target LLVM as backend.
If that sounds interesting, give it a try. I appreciate any feedback!
Standard library documentation: https://docs.alumina-lang.net/
Online compiler playground: https://play.alumina-lang.net/