I read through this, and thought to myself: "wow, what a response that elucidates the PL design tradeoff space while giving real world examples of languages that occupy various points on that space; all as concisely and economically as possible."

And then I read the user name. Of course it's boats!!

Thank you for all your work! I want to say that especially since I've noticed a lot of shallow dismissal of your work recently (shallow because the dismissal often doesn't engage with the tradeoffs of whatever alternative solution it proposes in the context of Rust, among other things), and would like you to know there's a lot of us who are very very grateful for all the productivity and empowerment you've enabled through your contribution to Rust.