Putting things "below the hood" with as few leaks as possible is one of the key ways of managing complexity. So if a language can do this for a certain set of u

Putting things "below the hood" with as few leaks as possible is one of the key ways of managing complexity. So if a language can do this for a certain set of use cases then it's worth using for those use cases. Everything becomes quicker and more productive. There's a reason people that few people nowadays write the server side of web applications in C++. Rust isn't a huge improvement for that use case compared to a managed language.