Its a labor issue between older, established and predominantly male C++ devs and newer, more diverse Rust devs. Like DoD contracts are now mandating "memory safety". Real shit. C++ is the language you learn if you get a CS Engineering degree. Those departments tend to be crawling with 4channers, who see all of the effort that Rust put into documentation, tooling, detailed error messages, and CoC's as gay.

There's a pretty good paper "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design" which highlights more on this. I have the PDF but idk his to share it.

PieFED is not an example of this though. Actually its the opposite. Python users tend to be academics, like chemists, who only need it to crunch some data. Its literally just because its too hard for them and they have more important stuff to do. Which is clearly the case here.