In other words, we tried hard to document a lot of before-the-fact rationalizations to go with the inevitable after-the-fact rationalizations. :-)
I don't think it matters what the Daily team originally intended. It is exciting/inspiring to me that they are trying to solve things differently. I think security for RTC is really important, so seeing more memory safe language usage makes me hopeful for the future.
All this new code also means people are really learning what goes into these problems. A whole new generation of coders are getting into the space and rethinking things. It is great.
it seems like these reasons to do something mysteriously only stay valid for the short period of time in which a technology has some kind of hype status and quickly fades when people realize that it's actually not that much improvement in practice and the hassles (training devs in new language, worse language ecosystem etc.) aren't actually worth it.