[crispinb]

> Turns out that the person who originally created the language doesn't like them either.

But it also turns out the very same isn't as neurotically attached to his 'likes' as most of us are:

> The Rust I Wanted probably had no future, or at least not one anywhere near as good as The Rust We Got. The fact that there was any path that achieved the level of success the language has seen so far is frankly miraculous. Don't jinx it by imagining I would have done any better!

He understands that his likes are just contingent facts about a single mammal, not truths. This is a hard-won understanding. Most people never reach it.