I was not implying that people were specifically avoiding Rust in favor of Jai. My comment was more to the point that people who would be interested in Jai are

I was not implying that people were specifically avoiding Rust in favor of Jai. My comment was more to the point that people who would be interested in Jai are most likely the same devs that are not interested in Rust. The reasons devs give for avoiding Rust are mixed but tend to focus on the restrictiveness inherent in Rust’s chosen memory model or the appearance of continual expansion of the language and its complexity or a strong aversion to the manner of dealing with and heavy usage of third party dependency, along with some other topics (syntax, functional-adjacent styling, insistence on idiomatic code at any cost, etc). While some or all of those reasons may be overblown, some devs just do not want Rust but are looking for an alternative to C or C++.