“It makes people feel fearless because they feel well protected. There's a phenomenon where seatbelts made people drive faster, but unlike with cars, it's okay if you drive faster with Rust. It'll be right there for you.”

So I think there's a few things that come into play there. One is that aspect of once you've gotten used to it, it feels very comforting and protective in terms of look at all these things it's catching for me that I don't have to worry about. It provides a kind of psychological safety where it's like, I am free to experiment. I am free to do complicated things. There was years ago a bunch of work out of Mozilla's browser team and other teams have reflected the same thing where they effectively said, we would not have felt comfortable writing this in C, where like you see people in Rust. Just saying, I'm going to go write a bunch of fancy SIMD code. I'm going to go write really complicated threading code. And it just works. And it just works on the first try, where people were afraid to build that, not because they didn't think they could do it, but because they anticipated all the pain that would come up when they're debugging it. And so it makes people feel fearless because they feel well protected.…