The version number isn't a typo: Pop!_OS is a third-party Ubuntu remix, and this is the Noble Numbat-based version - the Ubuntu release from April last year. The reason for the delay is that this release has a whole new desktop environment, COSMIC, that the company is building from scratch in Rust. We reported that this version went alpha last September and since then COSMIC has made its way into multiple other distros,
When I started off learning Rust, I was reading the Rust book, the official book, and it really resonated with me when they started speaking about option types, and result types, algebraic data types, and all those things. It occurred to me at that time, or it was the first time it clicked, that you could move this burden of discipline from yourself to the language.