Yeah, learning Rust has given me greater appreciation for C/C++. Like, the selling feature of all three is that they don't use a runtime, which means you're not locked into that ecosystem. You can create libraries with them, that can be used from virtually any other language.

It's also easy to say that the performance of Java, Python et al is fine, but having a larger application start up in 1 rather than 20 seconds is still always appreciated.