As a Python developer interested in Rust, for me it's the logic is this: Rust allows me to learn a systems language to complement high level/scripting language

As a Python developer interested in Rust, for me it's the logic is this: Rust allows me to learn a systems language to complement high level/scripting language without having to learn C/C++ which I find ugly and full of legacy cruft. This is important since Python encourages you to build native libraries for performance or low-level interfaces. The Rust programming style is also more familiar than "true" functional languages. Languages like Go are tricky for Python extensions because they include their own runtimes, which means you have 2 runtimes with garbage collectors to deal with. In a more "fuzzy" sense, I think there's also a philosophical appeal in the way Rust promotes human-friendliness over theoretical purity. Python promotes one correct and logical (to humans) way of doing things and I feel Rust is designed with the same ambition, even if the requirements of low-level memory management necessarily make it more complicated.