[maleldil]

Rust restricts what you can do when it can't reason about your code. Some developers don't like those restrictions and feel like they're "fighting the borrow checker". Others don't think it's worth it and go back to managed languages.

It's usually something like "I don't need the compiler holding my hand, I know what I'm doing", or "I'll just write in Go/Java/etc. so I don't have to worry about memory".