[hiljusti]

Cargo and Leiningen are the only two build/package tools I've used that are legitimately pleasant and unobtrusive. (And Cargo is more pleasant than Leiningen but I think that's the rest of the toolchain like rustc, clippy, etc)

Correlation is not causation, but some food for thought is that Rust and Clojure are also consistently the top two languages in Stack Overflow survey "most-loved languages" lists.