[2ndorderthought]

The number depends on if you count html/css, bash, powershell, etc as programming languages.

I don't blame your choice to walk away from rust. It is more complex than other languages. I like it because it makes the complexity explicit. Other people really do not. Both views are valid.

I think that explicit nature for memory handling is a paradigm change. Though I do understand that the definition of programming paradigms isn't really inclusive of that. But it introduces changes to how the language is composed, run, and compiles that aren't a part of other paradigms necessarily.

Eg, It's not a lint to have a use after free for rust. It's part of the acceptable subset of the language and must be expressed in the code.