For me personally: * It has the performance profile of C * A really good package manager * I don't have to worry about segfaults/runtime issues from manual m

For me personally: * It has the performance profile of C * A really good package manager * I don't have to worry about segfaults/runtime issues from manual memory management * I love the type system (yay expressive static types with pattern matching) * Also prevents data races and other things like iterator invalidation * Also, null safety, among other things leads to a lot fewer runtime issues I need to figure out