Woodruff: Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

Many fun activities will mean doing things that are less fun to enable them. Boundless hedonism is not generally what people mean when they say "fun". Perhaps they enjoy painting, and likely they don't find properly cleaning the brushes enjoyable, but they clean the brushes anyway because they see that as necessary to enable the fun bit. A picnic on the beach is fun for many people, getting sand out of everything not so much.

Raymond Chen has a concept of "paying taxes" as the parts of software development which are necessary (for quality of implementation) but generally not fun, like cleaning the paintbrushes. We should embrace tools (like Rust, or say, git) that reduce the amount of time we spend paying taxes without producing worse results.