Because of cult like belief structures growing up around rust, it's clear as day for us on the outside, I see it from the evangelists in the company I work for "rust is faster and safer to develop with when compared to c++", I'm no c++ fan but it's obviously nonsense.
I feel people took the comparison of rust to c and extrapolated to c++ which is blatantly disingenuous.
The cult that I see growing online a lot are those who are invested in attacking Rust for some reason, though their arguments often indicate that they haven't even tried it. I believe that we're focusing so much on Rust evangelists that we're neglecting the other end of the zealotry spectrum - the irrational haters.
The Rust developers I meet are more interested in showing off their creations than in evangelizing the language. Even those on dedicated Rust forums are generally very receptive to other languages - you can see that in action on topics like goreleaser or Zig's comptime.
And while you have already dismissed the other commenter's experience of finding Rust nicer than C++ to program in, I would like to add that I share their experience. I have nothing against C++, and I would like to relearn it so that I can contribute to some projects I like. But the reason why I started with Rust in 2013 was because of the memory-saftey issues I was facing with C++. There are features in Rust that I find surprisingly pleasant, even with 6 additional years of experience in Python. Your opinion that Rust is unpleasant to the programmer is not universal and its detractions are not nonsense.
I appreciate the difficulty in learning Rust - especially getting past the stage of fighting the borrow checker. That's the reason why I don't promote Rust for immediate projects. However, I feel that the knowledge required to get past that stage is essential even for correct C and C++. Rust was easy for me to get started in, because of my background in digital electronics, C and C++. But once you get past that peak, Rust is full of very elegant abstractions that are similar to what's seen in Python. I know it works because I have trained js and python developers in Rust. And their feedback corroborates those assumptions about learning Rust.
Care to explain the obvious, then? Rust is quite a lot nicer to write than C++ in my experience (and in fact, it seems like rust is most attractive to people who were already writing C++: people who still prefer C are a lot less likely to like Rust).
There is nothing attractive about c++ or rust, I really don't understand how anyone can think so, it has to be some sort of Stockholm syndrome. Think about it, before you started programming what about your experiences would make you appreciate the syntax soup of rust and c++?
I dunno, there's not much about my previous experience that would indicate much one way or the other. I have found, though, that I tend to prefer slightly denser, heterogeneous code and syntax than average. Low-syntax languages like Haskell and Lisps make my head hurt because the code is so formless it becomes hard for me to parse, while languages with more syntax and symbols are easier (though, there is a limit, APL,k, etc, are a little far I find)
I feel people took the comparison of rust to c and extrapolated to c++ which is blatantly disingenuous.