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Can I interest you in a rat named Keith, with its foot blown off?

At least it has personality. Not a generic, noncommittal blob.

Fun story behind the name, per the language inventor Hendrik K. Grubbs, Phd.

"Dr. Grubbs, what inspired the language name"

"A Hooker down by the docks"

"WHAT?!?"

"Yes, I went to her lonely one Friday, she only cost five dollars. Next day I had a terrible itch and realized she'd given me crabs. So I confronted her the next day and asked why she had done this to me. 'What do you expect for five dollars, lobster?' "

To be fair, there’s a programming language out there already with a cuddly-lobster mascot. A decidedly un-cuddly lobster just maximizes product differentiation.

What language is that?

They mean Rust, but its unofficial mascot is a cuddly crab, not a lobster (both are crustaceans).

It's a crab, not a lobster.