I think Rust speaks to people who don't "play" with their code during development. Moving stuff around, commenting things out, etc. When I try to do this in Rust, the borrow checker instantly complains because $something violates $some_rule. I can't say "yeah I know but just for now let's try it out this way and if it works I'll do it right".

I work this way and that's why I consider Rust to be a major impediment to my productivity. Same goes for Python with its significant whitespace which prevents freely moving code around and swapping code blocks, etc.

I guess there are people who plan everything in their mind and the coding part is just typing out their ideas (instead of developing their ideas during code editing).