I think there was the added wrinkle of "programming language made by the company that also makes Chrome" vs "programming language made by the company that also

I think there was the added wrinkle of "programming language made by the company that also makes Chrome" vs "programming language made by the company that also makes Firefox". Google's and Mozilla's browsers were/are competitors, so why wouldn't there programming languages be? Obviously, the two companies have completely different reasons for the development of the new languages, but I think that was overlooked at the time that Rust first came out.