> While the Rust project is from that timeframe, the language internals were rewritten almost from scratch shortly before the 1.0 release That only speaks to p

> While the Rust project is from that timeframe, the language internals were rewritten almost from scratch shortly before the 1.0 release That only speaks to priorities, though, which is exactly what was asserted earlier. If Rust's goal was to provide the best convenient web library, rewriting language internals would have been put on the back burner in order to focus on building the web library. However, that is not the Rust project's goal, so it was reasonable for people to choose to focus on something else instead. > Nothing comparable occurred wrt. Go or Node. Go (gc) was rewritten in Go. Completed in, funnily enough, 2015. I'm not convinced that year has any significance. The inception of the project is where the direction of the project is largely established. All of these tools were created to solve a particular set of problems and their course reflects that.