Rust moved in a direction where it is now a suitable alternative to C/C++ all the way down to operating system code and bare-metal embedded firmware. Graydon w

Rust moved in a direction where it is now a suitable alternative to C/C++ all the way down to operating system code and bare-metal embedded firmware. Graydon wanted something else even before Rust 1.0 was released. He wanted an OCaml-like language with modern Go/Erlang-inspired higher level concurrency abstractions.