Rust turns 10: How a broken elevator changed software forever

That 10 years ago.

Looks like they weren't able to borrow a 'was' for the sentence.

So Hoare, sick of dragging himself up 21 flights of stairs every day, began designing a new computer language. He wanted to create a small, fast programming language without the potential for memory bugs.

Dude figured it'd work better to invent a new language than to fix the bugs in the software: gigachad move