I don’t know why they said that. But I guess it’s the difference between a low certainty and a high certainty bet.

In 2024 it’s a safe assumption that a lot of the digital infra we use in 10 years will be based on Rust, so it may make sense to fund that.

On the other hand, something speculative like “semantic web” is less likely to be as important. It could be important, we just don’t know in $current_year.

I think it’s alright to split money between low certainty and high certainty bets, but reasonable people can disagree.