Which is one of the reasons why Rust is considered to be targeting C++'s developers. C++ devs already have the Stockholm syndrome needed to tolerate the tooling.

Things can still be slow in absolute terms without being as slow as C++. The issues with compiling C++ are incredibly well understood and documented. It is one of the worst languages on earth for compile times. Rust doesn’t share those language level issues, so the expectations are understandably higher.

Classic case of:

New features: yes

Talking to users and fixing actual problems: lolno, I CBF

I thorougly enjoy all the work on encapsulation and reducing the steps of compilation to compile, then link that C does... Only to have C++ come along and undo almost all of it through the simple expedient of requiring templates for everything.

Oops, changed one template in one header. And that impacts.... 98% of my code.