"Most of us, if we found ourselves trudging up 21 flights of stairs, would just get pissed off and leave it there. But Hoare decided to do something about it. He opened his laptop and began designing a new computer language, one that he hoped would make it possible to write small, fast code without memory bugs. He named it Rust, after a group of remarkably hardy fungi that are, he says, 'over-engineered for survival.'"

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language