It also has years of crucial hindsight in language-theory. OOP and FP are both fairly mature at this point, and Rust started out of the gate by elegantly weavin

It also has years of crucial hindsight in language-theory. OOP and FP are both fairly mature at this point, and Rust started out of the gate by elegantly weaving them into a single coherent model, compared with C++ which started with neither (C) and had to monkey-patch both of them on, over the very decades when the ideas behind them were most actively evolving.