>> It's interesting that you mention Rust, since Rust takes backward compatibility quite seriously;
I mentioned Rust because the memory safety guarantees are a significant new thing for a language like that. I forgot about "managed" languages like C# because that's quite far from my mind, but that's another significant attempt at safety. This kind of little detail in the PIP is really insignificant by comparison, so I was speculating that it might be driven by some kind of "save everyone" mentality. If so, wondering if that's a trend lately and I hadn't noticed.
I mentioned Rust because the memory safety guarantees are a significant new thing for a language like that. I forgot about "managed" languages like C# because that's quite far from my mind, but that's another significant attempt at safety. This kind of little detail in the PIP is really insignificant by comparison, so I was speculating that it might be driven by some kind of "save everyone" mentality. If so, wondering if that's a trend lately and I hadn't noticed.