Richard’s style of writing is less similar to mine than Andrew’s or Mitchell’s: he reads as a bit more generous and takes time to say things that I might just leave to a reader to notice.
Excellent move, to move up this blog post ahead of the 0.1.0 announcement, given current events 
Anyway, all in all a great read. Interesting insights into the way a project’s design helps it fit into one language better or worse than another. After all this talk about tracing GCs, I’m positively itching to write a language with one in Zig and see why it’s so fiendishly difficult!!