[mattgreenrocks]

Why was it called non-programming? Because it is so concerned with limitations?

IMO, the current zeitgeist seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to a prior idea: "everyone can program (e.g. previous zeitgeist)...but, we need guard rails in tools! Put as many guard rails as we can into tools!" Thus, you have languages prescribing architecture (Elm), web frameworks imposing naming conventions (Rails), etc. At least Rust's limitations help with reasoning, vs seeming capricious.

I'm preaching to the choir here (parent), but Obj-C remains the most interesting language I've seen in a long while: dynamic runtime with a static type-checking for a great majority of code, along with very good performance.