Rust really shines, for me, in cases where I have targets with multiple processor architectures, and varying degrees of maintenance support (read: still in service but beyond EOL). I write my tooling once, and when my build scripts are done I have the binaries I need for each platform. In my last use case, these were actually smaller than the venvs I needed to ship with Python on the minority of nodes where it was even possible to deploy a modern Python venv.