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Rust us way easier to understand for me (and I'd guess most people) than C.
Rust is fun because it's the only mainstream language with an affine type system, which allows some really cool patterns like the typestate pattern. And the fact that there's no inheritance or null or exceptions is amazing.
I don't use languages that can subvert the type system with null, it's an obvious flaw