Is the language/project somehow related to Odin or its ecosystem, or is it completely independent?

If the latter, I wonder how you can manage another programming language alongside Odin — anyway, thank you and great respect for both!

Completely independent of Odin (except being written in Odin). It's a plan to be a teaching tool to learn compiler development, that's it.

Not surprising, it appeared in 1.3k github feeds of your followers.

not Scotish sadly, AFAIK so: wowsers! kinda recall someone saying something about this?! \o/ yey