> Why didn't older languages get this far? People are talking about Linus' opinions of some other languages, but more importantly the Rust folks have been prep

> Why didn't older languages get this far? People are talking about Linus' opinions of some other languages, but more importantly the Rust folks have been prepared to put in a lot of work to meet Linus' concerns. You're now seeing all sorts of other language advocates pop up with D, Zig, and so on, but they've not put in the same work to convince Linus that anything else are real options.