Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there

Yeah my take is they wanted a language more resilient to slop-cannon code. Last I looked they had 900kLOC of Rust just after the Rust PR - I have no doubt there's a lot of garbage in those LOC, and Rust gives more safety guardrails for that.