alt Hacker NewsI think this was a genuine generational change. I am pretty sure Rust would never have become popular 20 years earlier because the priorities back then were so different (that was the era of languages like Ruby and Pearl where conciseness and low verbosity were the most valued aspects).
not just the priorities, the overall skill and education of programmers.
in the 1980/1990's i was a dumb kid. problems of large systems were not in my mind. having to type begin/end instead of {} was, i thought, a valid complaint.
with experience, education, and hindsight, most of the advantages of the ada language were not understood by the masses. if ada came out today, it would have taken off just like rust.