So as someone that potentially would ask you that, here's my thinking. Rust programs are (in my experience) always fast, less buggy (I'm sure you'll immediately scoff at that, but compared to the number of runtime errors I get in JS programs vs Rust I think it's significant), and they don't require massive dependency chains like Python and JS programs.
You could probably solve the things I just talked about with Go or some other new compiled language but the community has settled on Rust and Rust has great features right now that are working, so my thinking when I see something written in Rust is usually relief.
You could probably solve the things I just talked about with Go or some other new compiled language but the community has settled on Rust and Rust has great features right now that are working, so my thinking when I see something written in Rust is usually relief.