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And where did Rust, Python etc get their huge community from in the first place? From being jack of all trades? No, because they were the best fit for their use case. After they established themselves there, they became widely good.
tl;dr Language evolution and future outlook are big factors besides the existing language features themselves.
I guess Rust has attracted many C++ devs because C++ is painful and there were no other/better options. Rust comes with a build/dependency management system and memory safety guarantees on top of the type safety. Even though C++ templates are still unmatched, I prefer Rust 95% of the time. C++ is evolving very slow and it's extremely hard to participate. Rust will win that race eventually.
Python has been around since 1991(!) and it took a looong time to build the community. It was a niche like Nim is now for many years.
I'll definitely keep an eye on Nim because it has the potential to become quite popular.
Again, that's all just my opinion.