My reason is, Rust has excellent interop with Python. That's a nice combo: fast and "hard" stuff in Rust, Python for scripting with it (which I do a lot of). C

My reason is, Rust has excellent interop with Python. That's a nice combo: fast and "hard" stuff in Rust, Python for scripting with it (which I do a lot of). C++ ticks similar boxes, but I dislike it more than Rust :)