A few years ago, I built a sudoku solver in Python. Two years later, I rebuilt it with Go, with a MASSIVE performance gain (more than 100x faster).
When I heard about Rust, its performance and memory safety, it quickly caught my attention. And to learn a language, the best thing to do is, in my opinion, to rewrite a piece of software you already wrote in another language.
So I rewrote this software in Rust.
And OMG I was so disappointed.