[dathinab]

I'm honestly wondering why he explicitly mentioned it.

Languages taking inspiration from other languages and that's normal I don't think anyone bm the people I know from the rust community (which e.g. work on the compiler and language) would do so.

That's except if you write something like a paper, in which case it's party of the proper proceeding to mention "priority art" you are aware of *even if you didn't copy it or even had the idea early but just didn't publish it.

I hope it's just some random thing he remembered thought of when causally doing the interview, because the other alternatives wouldn't make him look good.