I wasn't meaning to imply any obligation that you should be using Rust or anything. My point was only that the reasons people do things are already very familia

I wasn't meaning to imply any obligation that you should be using Rust or anything. My point was only that the reasons people do things are already very familiar to you, so it doesn't do much to be incredulous of their motivations. I don't watch baseball, but I understand why people do it even if I can see no real value in it. People are motivated by a rational advantage far less often than by things like accessibility, familiarity, habit, curiosity, popularity, culture, counter-culture, identity, or need -- all of which are reasons that people use programming languages not present in your list. Perhaps this is just obvious. But I do frequently see people pretending to be objectively objecting -- complaining about traffic that they are themselves the cause of as if they didn't already know the answer to their question.