Since fancy languages like Rust can't even flush a toilet without calling into underlying system libraries, C and C++ tend to be the only real solutions to create bindings since many APIs are too complex for SWIG/bindgen). So these guys will never go away until operating systems get rewritten.
A useful read here for points relating to both C and C++: https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
If we bolted on a small C compiler to Rust, it might have solved some of these issues. Perhaps this is what lead to the approach Carbon and CppFront is now taking.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
