>I’ve seen a lot of protest on HN and Reddit from people who feel the currently popular language is being “shoved down their throat”. But if you’re not open to that we would be writing C forever, let alone C++ or Java (which had their own hype cycles).

This was Rust for a decade. It was really annoying. But now we have a wonderful new language with tons of support that could legitimately challenge C++ some day. So I tend to agree.