As a person that occasionally daytrips into Rust and Zig, I'd imagine some number of us are coming from higher level languages (JS/TS, Python, etc) as our daily

As a person that occasionally daytrips into Rust and Zig, I'd imagine some number of us are coming from higher level languages (JS/TS, Python, etc) as our daily drivers and interested in what performance we could get closer to the metal. In those cases we don't have a particular investment in C/C++, we don't know the differences between gcc or clang, we are used to package managers, don't manage header files, and things like comfy error messages and "if it compiles it's reasonably safe tm" are better than... Not having those things. Meanwhile, outside of things like CUDA interop I don't know what the compelling case for C/C++ even is for someone who isn't invested.