Rust is the only language out of those hyped that actually made me excited because it brings interesting features.

Additionally out of the box you have one cli with compiler, package management, etc. instead of 30 choices to pick from

C++ for me is just: terrible compilation times, 17 ways to achieve one goal, not strong ecosystem

Generally not the nicest developer experience in compare to e.g C# or apparently Rust.

I'd feel more motivated to jump into LLVM code base it that was written in Rust because I don't think C++ is the future - which is sad, because C++ has a lot of cool jobs now.

Probably to keep people from asking that it be rewritten in Rust.