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Similar to the times when boards with USB support weren't a thing, where you had to program it over serial. Now with USB it's so easy to program these boards, that you can jump right to the thing which interested you from the beginning, without having to deal with things like first flashing an Arduino which then served as a programmer.

I currently don't see any benefit of using Rust on a MCU if you're a hobbyist, but that doesn't mean that it isn't a wonderful language to use on a Raspberry Pi or anything above that.