They’re trying to praise the Machine God, little do they know the Omnissiah considers abominable intelligence a deadly sin.

Apparently they’re still an influence according to the docs.

To be honest when I say a while ago I mean a really long time ago, I remember hearing about it being popular for its functional programming features but also as a C++ replacement and I’ve not kept up since so it might just be the latter now.

I didn’t know it was written in Rust. I looked at it years ago but never went anywhere with it. I bet I’d be much better at it having written Scala for the last six months, never really got into functional programming until now.