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Versus C, it definitly made lots of sense.

For me it was the only language I could see myself using after getting used to Object Pascal quality of life, in tooling, type safety, and language features.

C felt jurassic already in 1993, and there wasn't any other portable alternative I could reach for.

However that copy-paste compatibility with C is what definitly has made it unsuitable for writing safe code nowadays, specially with the C culture that is now left.

Those of us that like C++, but also are on the safety side, have already embraced other programming languages, relegating C++ for the absolute must use cases.

I would argue that it made sense for performance-sensitive code until the maturation of Rust, so it made sense even in 2015. But not today.

you pay a performance penalty

and i don’t want to learn another language and package management system

are there any game engines for AAA development in rust?

makes sense to me